Suzy Bogguss (Susan Kay Bogguss) Quotes
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
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The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
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I think my greatest victory was every time I walked out there, I gave it everything I had. I left everything out there. That's what I'm most proud of. I can't go win Wimbledon anymore, so if what I've done in the past is not good enough, let it go. Because I'm certainly not sitting around thinking about it.
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The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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My first solo was in church when I was five.
