Sutton Foster (Sutton Lenore Foster) Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'
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IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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The ever-renewed instances of beauty and fairness passing over the faces of the beings in the universe show that they are shadows of the manifestations of an Eternal Beauteous One.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.
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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
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Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.
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If I was to buy a suit, I'd probably go to Men's Wearhouse - because you're going to like the way you look; they guarantee it.
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A Sonnet is a moment's monument,-Memorial from the Soul's eternityTo one dead deathless hour.
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Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any stage. I was deeply honored to call him a friend and will always remember the time I got to spend with him. The music world has lost one of our greatest treasures. Rest in peace, my little friend. You were loved by so many of us!
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I really do believe that youth comes from how you look at the world.
