Susan Powter Quotes

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

Susan Powter

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Education
  • Food
  • Medicine

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Remember
  • Summer
  • Bravery

• I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Extent

• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Political
  • Like
  • Games

• Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Faith
  • Dry

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• I am the face of a refugee. I was once a refugee. I was with my family in exile.

  

  Iman
  • Family
  • Refugee
  • Exile

• When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Feelings
  • Write
  • Books

• It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting.

  

  Max Winkler
  • Fun

• The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Work

• It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Work
  • Gods
  • Perfection

• Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

  

  Susan Powter
  • Work
  • Practice
  • Laziness