Susan Powter Quotes
The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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I'm huge fan of 'Timeflies.'
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
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I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news.
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I'm going to do my very best to ensure that our jobs are all market-competitive.
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The first time I got locked up, I was in Walmart stealing BB guns.
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Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
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I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
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I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.
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Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
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At the end of the day, you can't control the results; you can only control your effort level and your focus.
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It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight.
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I like to keep a book underneath the pillow that I'm not sleeping on so I can reach over and grab it when I wake up. I don't always do that, but I like to. I try to make sure it's a book and not my laptop. I also try not to get too excited about who might've been trying to contact me while I was asleep.
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My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both me and my brother wrote.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!
