Susan J. Fowler (Susan Joy Fowler) Quotes
The most powerful way to tell the truth is with documentation. Then nobody can say it’s a ‘he says, she says’ situation.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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The truth sustains me.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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Women are trying to have it all but are trying to regain control over their time. That's why many women are busting out of the traditional workforce and starting their own businesses.
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I grew up in Southern California. If it's snowing on a day I'm supposed to train, I'll just stare out the window in all my gear and be like, 'Hmmm, maybe not today.' I hate being cold.
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'Mean Girls' stands the test of time as one of the greatest comedies ever produced. I've seen it way too many times, and I just think it's the most brilliant thing ever written. I love it so much.
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We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
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A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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The most powerful way to tell the truth is with documentation. Then nobody can say it’s a ‘he says, she says’ situation.
