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Susan Straight Quotes

The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You had me at hello!' The completely spontaneous version of accidental love, which doesn't care about demographics and social compatibility.

Susan Straight

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 19, 1960

Topics

Love Love Is Me Care American You

My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

John Gourley

Architecture Mountains School College

We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

Jen Sincero

Fear Best People Society Confident

'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!

Jean Reno

Day Mind Me Think American Talking

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

Amy Purdy

Birthday Failure Up Transplant Ended

No two composers were more totally at home in front of the piano than Debussy and Chopin, hands to keys to strings to sound waves to pen and paper in one perfect gesture of inspiration.

Stephen Hough

Home Waves Hands Pen Perfect Sound

When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.

Stephen Amell

Time Happy People Brain Think Upset

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

Man Wise Wise Man He Much Ought

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

Debbie Reynolds

You Contract Did Were

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Clive Barnes

Dance Royal Dancing Things Match

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Alice Walker

Rest Week Observe Sabbath Holy

I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.

Sun Yat-sen

Science Mathematics Medical Youth

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

Peter Ackroyd

Character Vision History Great Story