Susan Wiggs Quotes
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.
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In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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I like to get real pretty.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
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Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I bring in the cultural tradition of African mermaids - Mami Wata, the mother goddesses.
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If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us.
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Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
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There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
