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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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life.
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For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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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.
