Susan Isaacs Quotes

It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous.

Susan Isaacs

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SweetInterestingPerfectWayShe

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Melody Beattie

FamilyCrazyGrowing UpBehaviorYou

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Stanislav Grof

BornSaidInadequateModelSimply

I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa.

Tracee Ellis Ross

GoodBodyWantOthersListenSteak

What law enforcement will tell you is that in a terrorist act or even an act of people who are involved in crime, such as a drug gang, that they tend to get their weapons illegally.

Rob Portman

PeopleLawLaw EnforcementYouWill

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

Rolando McClain

FocusFootballTogetherMindMe

'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.

Luis Suarez

LifeHairMy LifeDarkSkinWay

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.

Judith Rodin

InnovationThinkNewKindProduct

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

Jean Anouilh

FearManUglySightAfraidWho

The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.

Jason Blum

LifeTimeControlYouFallTry

I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.

Derf

WorkGoodFriendMoving ForwardBook

I never wrote for children. I wrote with respect for the audience, which I've maintained all my life. Doesn't mean I couldn't be risque, but I did it smartly, without being vulgar.

Chespirito

LifeChildrenRespectMy LifeNever

Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.

Chris Gibson

ConservativeResourcesConservation

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