Susanna Moore Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.
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Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
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One of my biggest regrets ever was not taking the time to go to South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela. That is a big regret of mine. I should have figured out a way.
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I think that any channel, whether it's Fox, CNN, or whatever, if they were truly giving a 360-view of what's going on, we would be better equipped to not slap judgments on people we really don't understand.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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People have a huge desire to be listened to, for politicians to take the time to understand their problems.
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I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
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The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you're getting them to do - getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, 'Have you given up on this project?'
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I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.
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I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
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I think actors get too comfortable. I like being uncomfortable as an actor because it keeps you alive. I don't know, I think it's important.
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I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.
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The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.
