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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It (i. e., advertising) was like horoscopes-enough blind stabs and some of them are bound to strike a target.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.
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What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.
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When I was interviewing Hillary Clinton, I knew when I'd ask her something that she wasn't going to give me the complete truth because she would break eye contact with me.
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In an effort to create a culture within my classroom where students feel safe sharing the intimacies of their own silences, I have four core principles posted on the board that sits in the front of my class, which every student signs at the beginning of the year: read critically, write consciously, speak clearly, tell your truth.
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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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.
