Susan Shreve Quotes
So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
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It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
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You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
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If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
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As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.
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As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
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So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time with a kind of clarity. It is that discovery of the past in the present on which a writer depends again and again as if our lost childhoods, like the surprising cyclamen plant, are forever opening new blossoms.
