Susan Sarandon (Susan Abigail Sarandon) Quotes
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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There's an examination for young people to go to university. I failed it three times. I failed a lot. So I applied to 30 different jobs and got rejected. I went for a job with the police; they said, 'You're no good.' I even went to KFC when it came to my city. Twenty-four people went for the job. Twenty-three were accepted.
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They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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I love Al Pacino.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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...the way we talk...you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.
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One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.
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And then, on September 11, the world fractured. It's beyond my skill as a writer to capture that day and the days that would follow--the planes, like specters, vanishing into steel and glass; the slow-motion cascade of the towers crumbling into themselves; the ash-covered figures wandering the streets; the anguish and the fear. Nor do I pretend to understand the stark nihilism that drove the terrorists that day and that drives their brethren still. My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.
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I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
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I believe in using words, not fists.
