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Helen Suzman Quotes

I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: south african
Birth: November 7, 1917 - January 1, 2009

Topics

I Am Action Now Representation Seen

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Hide Will Never Cost Cannot Promise

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

Myself Best Think Thinking Enjoy

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

Life Think Trying You Acting Person

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

Faith Time Experience Spiritual Dark

Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy.

Finance Toxic Economy Seen Terrible

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.

Life Never Two Twins Things Which

I grew up in Berkeley and my parents were hippies, obviously, since my name's 'Jorma.' I didn't watch much television growing up because they weren't into it at all.

Parents Growing Up Name Television

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

Parents Two Up Going Brothers Grew

I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.

Action Doing Dream Dumb Movies Way

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens

Wife People Book Say Never Absurd

I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.

Time Tea Me Kitchen Remember Early

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sorrow Pleasure Sweeter Than Itself

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