Suzy Menkes (Suzy Peta Menkes) Quotes
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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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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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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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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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But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
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Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that I love the movie so much that I will, of course, read the book.
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Really, the golden egg of doing a series is that you cross that very stupid bridge that says 'Name Actors Only' in casting sessions. All of a sudden, you become a name actor; it gives you marquee value. That's all that a series does.
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Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.
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I remember seeing the first Astaire-Rogers musical on television, and I couldn't believe how beautiful it was. It dawned on me that you don't have to wear a cowboy hat to be a man.
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I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
