Susanna Thompson Quotes
I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.
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I stopped eating beef in high school, and in college I stopped eating poultry. I am not a huge fan of factory farming and what we're doing to animals. I try to eat as clean as possible because I want to know what I'm putting into my body.
