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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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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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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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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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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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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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.
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Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
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I write novels and other things.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
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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.
