Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

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• I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Me
  • Grew

• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Friend

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Excellence

• I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Language

• You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.

  

  Halsey
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Cold

• I think people get excited about someone discovering something that blew their mind when they were younger. I think it makes people kind of nostalgic and happy. That's one of the really great things about the Internet, that it can bring people together in that way of just being interested in the same stuff.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Thoughts
  • Choice
  • Express

• Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Never
  • Wear
  • Jeans

• Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Today
  • Feelings
  • Sensitive

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Crazy
  • Positive
  • Tennis

• I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Age
  • Weird

• Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Character
  • Think
  • Dream

• The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Promise
  • India
  • Execution

• Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Amazing
  • Impossible
  • White

• O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Woman
  • Poets
  • Sung

• The concept of The 'Most Beautiful Moment in Life', that was chapter one for us; it feels like that because we were starting from the bottom, but on this concept, 'Love Yourself', we started to talk about some brighter things, like the real things in life.

  

  Kim Nam-joon BTS
  • Things
  • Concept
  • Chapter

• I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Giving

• Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

  

  Susanna Kaysen
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