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.
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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.
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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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Brides today are increasingly sensitive to the tastes, feelings and finances of their attendants.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The gap in India has always been between the promise and the execution.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
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Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames.
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I've been on the computer a lot. They say that's the cause of the soreness in my elbow. I'll be in control. I spent four hours. Now, I'll have to spend one hour and take it easy.
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Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
