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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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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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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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.
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Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
