Susan Minot Quotes
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
Quotes to Explore
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
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In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.
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'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.
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I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
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I cannot bet my life on it, because I was not involved, that Alex Rodriguez ever used steroids. But in my opinion, I suspect he has, yes.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
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For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.
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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
