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Susanna Moore Quotes

When I was nine, I was taught to ride a surfboard in Waikiki by the beach boy Rabbit Kekai.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1945

Topics

Beach Ride Boy Rabbit Nine Taught

Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Education School Start High School

I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

Work Ideas Way Begin Keep Knew

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Live Relationship World Reality Feel

If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.

Character Myself Understand Try Role

If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.

School Parents Crazy Proud Learn

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

People Say Clever May Very Really

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits.

World Search Efficiency Will System

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?

Fear Me American Violence You Why

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Deborah Moggach

Together Living Sight Lucky Shut Up

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

Poetry People Say Because Interested

Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.

Love Good Best Want Living Always

Here's what I had: I had the arrogance of saying I'd like to be in a 'good' movie, so in fact, when I was hot, I turned down a lot of stuff because I didn't think I wanted to watch it.

Good Saying Think Arrogance Down

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