Susan Kohner Quotes

Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

Susan Kohner

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• To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Think
  • Model
  • Better

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Present

• Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Help
  • Him
  • Allah

• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Gun

• All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Give
  • Compromise
  • Surrender

• A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • May
  • Job
  • High

• You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Real
  • School

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Day
  • Will

• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  

  Al Stewart

• Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • People
  • Song

• I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • School
  • Future
  • Psychology

• A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • People
  • Game
  • Reality

• When I'm at my best, I'm wearing a 6. When you see yourself pick out the 6... you want to wear the tags on the outside of your clothes.

  

  Kirstie Alley

• Some people put up a peace sign with one hand. Some people put up the middle finger instead. I use two hands and put up both.

  

  Brian Celio
  • People
  • Up
  • Peace

• I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Life
  • Different
  • School

• We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World
  • Home
  • Friends

• Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Good
  • Dream

• Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Music
  • Money
  • Small

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Love
  • Art
  • Kids

• What sort of government is it that permits so many children to go to school hungry, without even a morsel of food in their stomachs? It cannot be! It must not be!

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Children
  • School
  • Food

• Acting wasn't what I wanted to do forever. I wanted a home, and I wanted children.

  

  Susan Kohner
  • Children
  • Forever
  • Acting