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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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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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 didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and called the office and told them to bring me a bunch more. Then I had my cousin's store deliver a bunch of smoked ham and turkeys. I mean, these people are hungry and living under a bridge.
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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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Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
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Throughout my career, I had the great fortune to experience firsthand as well as to witness what it means to be a CIA officer.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!
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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!
