Suzi Quatro (Susan Kay Quatro) Quotes
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
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Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.
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While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.
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I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.
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One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.
