Susan Orlean Quotes

I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.

Susan Orlean

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PowerYourselfI AmYouInformation

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

Jerry Lewis

BelieveYouSeenSomethingPosterity

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

John Mahoney

LearnDoingI CanStageSeeHead

Success is not a stop sign.

Robert Kiyosaki

SuccessStopSuccess IsSign

Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.

Michael Greger

WomenHeartSufferingWeekHigh

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

Michael Imperioli

BookEndYouProductWatchGoing

There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.

Amy Grant

GodWayFormulaTimetableHeals

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Steve Wozniak

TimeBestImaginationThoughtYou

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

Tom Stoppard

ArtTrustValuesMy OwnOwnCritic

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

Mick Jagger

WorkGoodI AmYouDoneMy Own

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.

Joy Page

DreamsYourselfYouChooseDream

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

Jon Anderson

SuccessYourselfPeopleBelieveYou

Baseball is a game of inches.

Branch Rickey

BaseballGameInches

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