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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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
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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 once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so bad. They're serious. They demand a lot of attention. But I remember thinking that I wanted to have one with someone who's not so crazy and peculiar and demanding.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.
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If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.
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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.
