Susan Minot Quotes
There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
Quotes to Explore
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by fighting for the people I cared about and loving those close to me, I could leave the world a better place.
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I always try to write the best I can.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.
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I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
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To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others - he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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For the charities, their relationships with celebrity supporters should be as deep and purposeful as the ones they have with any of their supporters and volunteers, based on a genuine understanding of the issues they're tackling.
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I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.
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I'll always have something to prove.
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Unfortunately, satisfaction is linked partly to results.
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
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The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.
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There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.
