Suzanne Weyn Quotes
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia and now these young guys have come through our development system and are making their way into the national team.
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!
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You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.
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In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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Gentle time will heal our sorrows.
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I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it.
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A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
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My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
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On a motif such as was indicated by Reti one cannot build the plan of a whole well contested game; it is too meagre, too thin, too puny for such an end. Reti's explanations, wherever they are concerned with an analysis which covers a few moves, are correct and praiseworthy. But when he abandons the foundations of analysis in order to draw too bold, too general a conclusion, his arguments prove to be mistaken.
