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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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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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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If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.
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Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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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.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
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Love is not about the Dimples on the Cheeks but it is about the Heart that Beats.
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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.
