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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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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I think a lot of writing, or a lot of young writers, especially, hold themselves back unnecessarily because they're so upset about the idea that they might be sentimental or so concerned about being criticized that way or even being that way that they just shy away from any strong expression or emotion.
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It's really frustrating when you're an identity-theft victim, and you go to the police and you say, 'This guy in Florida, he stole my name and got a credit card - this is his address,' and they say, 'We don't have jurisdiction in Florida. You need to go to the FBI.'
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We have a saying where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.
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Value everyone you know they might be gone tomorrow
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J. K. Rowling is one of my favourite authors, and I really admire how she created this big wizarding world. But I think our books are very, very different, and I don't think there can be a next J. K. Rowling. She is one of a kind.
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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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I really do believe that youth comes from how you look at the world.
