Susan Orlean Quotes
I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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'You drink wine, you have foreskins. These things have been observed.'
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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
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I'm never really happy with anything I do.
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It's supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.
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I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others. I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife. At length, I even offered her personal violence.
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The strangest mores of the most of-the-way societies will, in spite of everything, be relatively comprehensible to the person who has a flesh-and-blood knowledge of man’s needs, anxieties, and hopes. If, on the other hand, this experience is lacking, he will not even be able to understand the customs of those about him.
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And that, my young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another. Macedonians. Sassanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.
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I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.
