Susan Burton Quotes

A New Way of Life is a safe house that women can come to after they're released from prison in South Los Angeles. It's a place for women to detox the trauma, the torture of incarceration, be welcomed and embraced and live and begin their new path to - if it's recovery or receiving mental health services, go back to school, get their children back.

Susan Burton

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I was kind of a scaredy-cat as a kid, and I made a very deliberate decision at some point that I was not going to let fear rule my life or determine my experience. That wasn't so easily accomplished.

Andrew Solomon

LifeFearDecisionExperienceKind

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

Robert Plant

ThinkLearnAboutReallyHad

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

Sophia Myles

ReligionSpiritualI AmPracticeYou

The president is a president for all Singaporeans. Not only for those who have voted for me, but even for those who have not voted for me.

Tony Tan

MePresidentOnlyWhoEvenThose

Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

MemoryNeverDialogueTakeNotes

I am very chill and comfortable in my own skin, and because of this, I believe it is exactly what is needed when you are with a strong woman. My wife is no shrinking violet in her own right. As a result, you have to know when to push, when to pull, when to let it go, and when to stand firm.

Jason Winston George

WifeWomanI AmBelieveStrongPush

When you get new people around you, the excitement is new because they have different take on your music. They play it in a different way, and that's always exciting to be around. It elevates everybody onstage.

Jay DeMarcus

MusicPeopleYouPlayNewWay

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

Del Shannon

YouLoseCareerTryWriteUp

I don't want to grow old gracefully. I want to put up a bit of a fight.

Bruce Forsyth

FightGrowWantOldUpGracefully

The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.

Pawel Pawlikowski

ThinkThoughtNeverSameFiction

A weird thing is a strange loop, what some of us call 'an object.' Thus it is looked down on by the constructivist spokespeople of anti-art, which is also an anti-products movement - the dominant mode of high art since the inception of the Anthropocene.

Timothy Morton

ArtWeirdDownStrangeMovementUs

I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.

Kyle Chandler

LoveThinkLearnYouRightRole

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