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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We know our future's not guaranteed, so every day, we have to relentlessly pursue additional actions to drive our competitiveness.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!
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On social media, we have a lot of fans. It's so important to me to spread awareness of premature babies and premature birth.
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
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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.
