Suzy Bogguss (Susan Kay Bogguss) Quotes
A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.
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Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.
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Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
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I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.
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I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.
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No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.
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Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
