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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Step by step and the thing is done.
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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.
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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.
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One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.
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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.
