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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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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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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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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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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On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled those special scents up close on her body, except during kisses goodbye.
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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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On camera, the audience can see your eyes close up - they can see behind your eyes - and when you're on stage, you need to make sure that the person sitting in the back row can feel what's happening behind your eyes, even if they can't see them. Having a live audience is exhilarating and exciting all on its own, but you know, it is quite different.
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The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.
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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.
