Susan Minot Quotes
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.
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Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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If a man gives way to all his desires, or panders to them, there will be no inner struggle in him, no 'friction,' no fire. But if, for the sake of attaining a definite aim, he struggles with desires that hinder him, he will then create a fire which will gradually transform his inner world into a single whole.
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As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.
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A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.
