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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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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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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'It's a gift!' he said. He was referring to his art, and also to the result; but he was using the word quite literally.
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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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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.
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Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.
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People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.
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I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
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There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
