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.Susan Shreve
Quotes to Explore
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim -
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps -
'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks -
I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson -
To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.
Kapil Sibal -
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
Malala Yousafzai
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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.'
Candace Cameron Bure -
There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.
Valentino Garavani -
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.
Oliver Cromwell -
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.
Claire Forlani -
It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
Elizabeth A. Sherman
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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.
Joan Miro -
Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas -
Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.
Lisa See -
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
I'd much rather have the freedom, and the obligation to use it responsibly, than be put in a box.
Jason Bateman -
Giving is what makes a nation great.
Jonathan Sacks
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In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller -
Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach -
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'.
Nathan Fillion -
The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
Jeffrey Eugenides -
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.
Susan Shreve