Suzanne Pleshette Quotes
I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.
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Sadat made us feel more secure.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
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I don't push my voice; I try to keep a good technique, a natural way of singing, to sing from the breath, which is the main thing.
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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.
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I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing 'Gunsmoke.'
