Susanna Kearsley Quotes
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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If you want the Migos to come to your venue, you need to have security there because of the type of music we're rappin'. We get fans excited.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
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Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.
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I'm currently working on a romantic comedy between me and Philip Seymour Hoffman. So my next step is to write something so mind-blowingly spectacular that he has no other choice but to agree to do it! Wish me luck.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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I like the old-school muscle cars.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.
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We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
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My sweet tooth was so bad, it was rotten. So I had to have it pulled. For me, with sugar, it's all or nothing. So I had to cut it out.
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Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.
