Susan Powter Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.
