Susan Strasberg (Susan Elizabeth Strasberg) Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Justice is revenge.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.
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A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
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I do not want to make teaching films. If I did, I would create a separate organization. It is not higher education that interests me so much as general mass education.
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I'm no relation to Lillian or Dorothy Gish. Not even way back. But when I first became interested in acting, I wrote a letter to Lillian Gish. She wrote back, discouraging me from entering the business.
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As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
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In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
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He has finally joined Gracie, ... That was his love. I know he missed her so terribly and now he will be with her.
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As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.
