Susan Straight Quotes
I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
Susan Straight
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
Haley Bennett
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
Wendy Davis
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
Landon Donovan
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Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Idina Menzel
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
Laura Linney
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
Vince Gill
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.
Ian Mckellen
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The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.
Harry A. Blackmun
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The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.
Tawakkol Karman
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It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.
Larry Wall
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Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, Roderick Terry
Alex Rodriguez
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I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.
Jason Alexander
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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and paid into Medicare, knowing that one day she could count on having high-quality health care when she needed it most.
Ann McLane Kuster
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I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.
Phil Robertson
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The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
Peter Capaldi
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I was a pain most of my childhood, always mad at the things I didn't have. Things shifted drastically in my 20s when I started putting an emphasis on gratitude. Focus on the good you do have, not the things you lack.
Lewis Howes
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When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your children are gone, your husband's gone, your mother's gone.
Colson Whitehead
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I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.
Alexandra Daddario
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I am now trying to trust the universe to take care of me and not necessarily rely on other people to make me happy.
John Magaro
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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
Susan Straight
