Susan Hill Quotes

It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.

Susan Hill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 5, 1942

Topics

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I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Jimmy Buffett

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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

Jimmy Smith

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How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.

John Elway

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The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.

Meg Rosoff

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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

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Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

Steve Carell

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A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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Just like how male actors get to play varied characters, I would also like to play characters that people don't normally see female characters portraying on screen.

Song Hye-kyo

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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

Tony Abbott

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All my childhood dreams have come true.

Lucas Till

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There's so much boldness in living life this way, and we did it all, and no one can take it away from us.

Diana Nyad

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Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Claire Tomalin

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