Susannah Cahalan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
-
I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
-
You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
-
I just want to sit in my room and write books.
-
I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
-
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
-
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
-
I see a 16-year-old now, and to ask her to take her clothes off would feel really weird. But they were like, 'If you don't do it, then we're not going to book you again.' So I'd lock myself in the toilet and cry and then come out and do it. I never felt very comfortable about it. There's a lot of boobs. I hated my boobs! Because I was flat-chested.
-
I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
-
I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
-
I have my hands full with my kids and so romance is not high on my list of priorities.
-
Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
-
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
-
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
-
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
-
Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
-
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
-
It had also been my belief since I started writing fiction that science fiction is never really about the future. When science fiction is old, you can only read it as being pretty much about the moment in which it was written. But it seemed to me that the toolkit that science fiction had given me when I started working had become the toolkit of a kind of literary naturalism that could be applied to an inherently incredible present.
-
I do believe that even if you're the most clever person around and you figure out the 'whodunit' and you're not surprised - that shouldn't prevent you from enjoying the story.
-
I had to bring the idea of journalistic distance to writing about myself.
