Suzanne Fields Quotes
A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Politics ruins the character.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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...words were said that could not be put right again...
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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually.
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I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.
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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
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Steve Zahn and I like to go to dinner, and we love to go to Chef Donald Link's Herb Saint.
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SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
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There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.
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Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging myself to make it more interesting, tighter and more surprising: to come at it sideways in a way that the audience wasn't expecting.
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Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.
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A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
