Louis Susman Quotes
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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Computer modelling for weather forecasting, and indeed for climate forecasting, has reached its limits.
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People are proud to be from Baltimore. In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. And this city has that support for anyone who was born here or lived here. And it also gives you the feeling, 'Oh, I stand for this place. And if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' And I want to make Baltimore proud.
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They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.
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The entertainment industry is a microcosm of the real world. To be 'othered' within the industry is a reflection of where we have been cast in the outside world, existing in the margins of society for decades witnessing cisgendered, heterosexual whiteness as the clearly defined default to which we must cater.
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Sometimes, I think I have the best job in the world.
