Suzy Bogguss (Susan Kay Bogguss) Quotes
After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
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Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
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An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
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I grew up in Tennessee, and if you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art...I was an outcast in a lot of ways...but everything that you get picked on for or you feel makes you weird is essentially what's going to make you sexy as an adult.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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Not just my parents, but teachers, friends, mentors - a host of people are to be thanked for any success I have had, and a whole lot of just plain luck.
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The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.
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After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.
