Susannah McCorkle Quotes
I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
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I work hard, and managing an inventory-based business can be extremely stressful. The upside is that, as long as I get my job done, I can take time off pretty much any time I want.
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Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
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I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.
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I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.
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I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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You always want to get better, and I think that will remain true for the rest of my career.
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When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
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I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.
