Susan Minot Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I want to be my own person.
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I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
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I am mindful that the goal of protest is not more protest, but the goal of protest is change.
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We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.
