Suzy Menkes (Suzy Peta Menkes) Quotes
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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I can understand the natural anxiety of readers when waiting for another installment of a favourite series, but I think it is much more important to get a book right than it is to have it appear on time.
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That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.
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The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.
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Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
