Susan Sullivan (Susan Michaela Sullivan) Quotes
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I was concerned about filling my life up with something important to me. To me, it was just necessary.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
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You can't change the wind but you can set your sails.
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I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
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To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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The most annoying person on the BBC is Russell Brand, I've actually been close up to that boy. He smells like when you mix garlic with coffee and alcohol. I'm just saying when you get close to him, he could do with a bit of Sure For Men, he stinks.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
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If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
