Susan Minot Quotes
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.
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My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
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I'm not optimistic.
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I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.
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Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.
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I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.
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I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
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I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.
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If I could jump right from one project, have 2 days to rest, and jump right into the next one, I would.
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Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
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I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
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Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.
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The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
