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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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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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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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
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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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Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.
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The news had stirred him strangely. He listened for bulletins on the radio, which he had seldom turned on after finding that its basic function was advertising things for sale.
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I know two kinds of audience only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
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I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial. It will not fail through its inherent weakness. It may fail because of poverty of response. Then will be one time for real danger. The high-souled men, who are unable to suffer national humiliation any longer, will want to vent their wrath. They will take to violence.
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In a play, a man comes out and says something. Another man comes out and says something. And by the end of the night, we've learned something we didn't know, In a musical, there is singing and dancing for two hours, but you've got to know everything in 5 minutes. Do it in those 5 minutes or you'll lose them.
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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
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A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
