Susannah Grant Quotes
Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
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Going to the Oscars is always the most sensory overload and a huge amount of fun.
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I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity, to this announcement. I know that I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington, but I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change. People who love their country can change it.
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I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
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I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.
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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
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Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
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Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.
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I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
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All I have to do is to work on transition and technique.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
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There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.
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Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced I would grow up to be a princess.
