Susan Isaacs Quotes

It's not that I'm apolitical... In my youth, I was a freelance political speechwriter, which taught me a lot about writing fiction, I must add.

Susan Isaacs

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Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself.

Maya Hawke

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Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Max Lerner

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There are clear cases in which 'understanding' literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

John Searle

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When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.

Steve Largent

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I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.

Steve Vai

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I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.

Sidney Poitier

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In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from nowhere, for no apparent reason, and took hold of my little fairy-girl.

Tony DiTerlizzi

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I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

Tony Kushner

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I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

Tom Vilsack

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I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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Being in smoggy Delhi was a gloomy feeling.

Mohit Chauhan

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The fans care about somebody who cares about them. It's not all about somebody who can put the ball in the cup. I think that's my calling.

Jaylen Brown

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