Susan Wiggs Quotes
There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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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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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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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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Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.
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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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I don't claim to be an expert on this, but I think ADD and creativity may be the same thing; it's just that they can't sell you drugs for being creative. Seriously, the world needs people whose minds constantly wander, because that's how great ideas are stumbled upon.
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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
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It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.
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The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
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There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
