Susan Hayward quote: "My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax."

I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. T...
SUSAN HAYWARD

When you're dead, you're dead. No one is going to remember me when I'm dead. Oh, maybe a...
SUSAN HAYWARD

I'll cry tomorrow.
SUSAN HAYWARD

This is an opportunity for the community of South Dakota to take part in planning the future of the ...
SUSAN HAYWARD

It's an experiment year for us too. We had a young rock band last night, more of a kid's or college ...
SUSAN HAYWARD

I'm not going to say I'm sold on a five-day fair, and I'm not sure we can do it.
SUSAN HAYWARD

We had a very successful fair. We were thrilled.
SUSAN HAYWARD

I'm starting to find my own style.
KARA HAYWARD

I love to write.
KARA HAYWARD

Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented ...
KARA HAYWARD

I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. T...
KARA HAYWARD

You have to find out how to become the character.
KARA HAYWARD

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fi...
KARA HAYWARD

I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
KARA HAYWARD

I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balan...
KARA HAYWARD

One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
KARA HAYWARD

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
KARA HAYWARD

I would say that Emma Stone and Emma Watson are two very talented young actresses who are very intel...
KARA HAYWARD

As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kin...
KARA HAYWARD

I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, y...
KARA HAYWARD

If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's...
KARA HAYWARD

I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things ...
KARA HAYWARD

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
KARA HAYWARD

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
KARA HAYWARD

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.
JUSTIN HAYWARD

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and peop...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.
BRIAN HAYWARD

You want to see an embarrassment? Look in the mirror, Sean.
BRIAN HAYWARD

Grain shipments are beginning to bounce back to levels reflective of the high volumes produced in 20...
BRIAN HAYWARD

Farmers have responded to escalating fertilizer prices and low commodity prices by delaying purchase...
BRIAN HAYWARD

Good moisture conditions across western Canada will encourage maximum use of the productive capacity...
BRIAN HAYWARD

Given the seasonal nature of agriculture in Western Canada, a loss in the first quarter is not unexp...
BRIAN HAYWARD

This has been an active business for many years, obviously through the IBM mainframe market and so f...
BOB HAYWARD

IT managers need to get ahead of the game and understand these products, put the right security poli...
BOB HAYWARD

If you're just taking advantage of cheap machines, and they don't fit well into your environment, th...
BOB HAYWARD

You have to make sure this equipment fits in with the new environment,
BOB HAYWARD

I would say trust your own judgment and develop your own style that is true in your heart and don...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

We will continue our efforts to improve our performance and reinforce our position as the industry l...
CHARLES HAYWARD

I'm very lucky that people are able to say, 'Oh, that's that Moody Blues guy!' I'...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

The minute we moved in (1712 North Crescent Heights), Dennis Hopper decided to give a party for Andy...
BROOKE HAYWARD

He was taken into custody.
CHARLES HAYWARD

Like our drummer Graeme (Edge) said, 'I couldn't bear to see the others go on with out ya,' ... So y...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them.
JUSTIN HAYWARD

And if you stop and think about it You won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

Another point is that the low-end rods and reels available today are comparable to some of the highe...
DAVE HAYWARD

The trend to travel rods has risen steadily since they were introduced. They now comprise about 60 p...
DAVE HAYWARD

The task force and external audit commissioned by the university, along with the state audit, should...
BRAD HAYWARD

As you go along, you realize you have ambitions but when you get there, you want something else, so ...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

He just seems to have a knack to know what to do in certain situations. He knows how to handle certa...
REGGIE HAYWARD

I am pleased with the reforms implemented throughout the course of the deferred prosecution agreemen...
CHARLES HAYWARD

If all one does is get another entity to stand in place of NYRA, you're going to have the same resul...
CHARLES HAYWARD

The $5 million will not last us until the summer.
CHARLES HAYWARD

I'd rather continue to work with the state and get something done. That's a better alternative.
CHARLES HAYWARD

The distribution of money is one of the things that we're talking about.
CHARLES HAYWARD

The racing law is going to have to change.
CHARLES HAYWARD

cooperated fully with all government and law enforcement agencies.
CHARLES HAYWARD

We're going to put on one heck of a show,
CHARLES HAYWARD

I was born in Swindon... a place that always looked west. I found that wherever I go I love to have ...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

I really had to plan my mornings out in order to make the commute. It was a lot more complicated tha...
DAVE HAYWARD

There's no excuse for saying that fly fishing is too expensive. The top-end rods and reels are costl...
DAVE HAYWARD

The Beatles were in a different stratosphere, a different planet to the rest of us. All I know is wh...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the t...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

I contemplated the phone for some time. Never had I heard her so oddly gay and forthright; as a matt...
BROOKE HAYWARD

I remember at the reception you said to me, 'I'm the daughter of a father who's been married five ti...
BROOKE HAYWARD

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.
BROOKE HAYWARD

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never e...
BROOKE HAYWARD

I have a series of splintered relationships. Why should I get married again? It's a miserable co...
BROOKE HAYWARD

That's what we want to do, put North Lawndale on the map. We want to keep (the Class A title) in Chi...
HAYWARD BROWN

It's all a learning experience down here, and this will give us an idea of what the real playoffs ar...
HAYWARD BROWN

They got close and it seemed like the whole crowd was against us. But champions have to battle again...
HAYWARD BROWN

I can be stupid in my lyrics or say whatever I want without having to worry about anybody else's fee...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

And if you stop and think about it You won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been givi...
JUSTIN HAYWARD

It's their dedication and time spent on the wrestling mat. They really peaked at the right time and ...
KRIS HAYWARD

It's tough to win with that many sophomores. But all 11 won at least a match at state except for our...
KRIS HAYWARD

It (a state title) is a possibility, it's looking pretty good right now.
KRIS HAYWARD

There were seven or eight weight classes I was a little worried about because we've been inconsisten...
KRIS HAYWARD

In terms of being convenient and having the brand recognized on every corner, we have a ways to go.
LANI HAYWARD

It was a big spoof, it got a lot of people laughing.
LANI HAYWARD

It could have been devastating.
LANI HAYWARD

We're finding people who are creating great products locally, good stuff that fits our environment.
LANI HAYWARD

We needed to give people a reason to come in. We have a commitment to being connected to the fabric ...
LANI HAYWARD

It's fabulous, because they're actually using the space, and they're touching and seeing and feeling...
LANI HAYWARD

We want to create a place where people want to be -- where impulse buying even occurs.
LANI HAYWARD

It's really similar to dog training, you just have bigger treats.
MIKE HAYWARD

Lord willing, I'll get a lot,
REGGIE HAYWARD

Our lives were a series of extremes. A thanksgiving of riches was bestowed on us at birth: grace and...
BROOKE HAYWARD

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and s...
JEREMY W. HAYWARD

To a very large extent men and women are a product of how they define themselves. As a result of a c...
JEREMY W. HAYWARD

...have you received your identity from God? He is the only one you were created for and only He kno...
RAY BEESON CHRIS HAYWARD

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa...
SUSAN ORLEAN

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th...
SUSAN POWTER

At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ...
SUSAN WOJCICKI

Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m...
SUSAN VREELAND

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th...
SUSAN ORLEAN

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder...
SUSAN ORLEAN

When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c...
SUSAN MINOT

To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ...
SUSAN ORLEAN

I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce.
SUSAN VASS

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere...
SUSAN SONTAG

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
SUSAN SONTAG

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write...
SUSAN SONTAG

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we...
SUSAN ERTZ

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im...
SUSAN COLLINS

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN

One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ

I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w...
SUSAN ORLEAN

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE

I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ...
SUSAN ESTRICH

My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ...
SUSAN ISAACS

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and nee...
SUSAN SARANDON

I'll never throw away my blue jeans.
SUSAN FORD

So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time wi...
SUSAN SHREVE

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviou...
SUSAN ESTRICH

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
SUSAN TAYLOR

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp...
SUSAN SONTAG

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
SUSAN SONTAG

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio...
SUSAN SONTAG

I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors...
SUSAN ORLEAN

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short...
SUSAN VREELAND

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be bo...
SUSAN SARANDON

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin...
SUSAN SONTAG

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th...
SUSAN SONTAG

We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut ...
SUSAN BYSIEWICZ

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an ans...
SUSAN OLSEN

I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bun...
SUSAN OLSEN

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ...
SUSAN CAIN

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,...
SUSAN SONTAG

Reality Check
His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f...
SUSAN FORWARD

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the...
SUSAN SONTAG

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate...
SUSAN SONTAG

American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro...
SUSAN SONTAG

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A...
SUSAN SONTAG

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle...
SUSAN SONTAG

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe...
SUSAN SONTAG

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...
SUSAN SONTAG

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG

I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on...
SUSAN SARANDON

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG

The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience.
SUSAN MAUSHART

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
SUSAN FALUDI

Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t...
SUSAN ANDERSEN

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...
SUSAN SONTAG

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
SUSAN SONTAG

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
SUSAN WIGGS

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio...
SUSAN SONTAG

So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
“Yeah.”
“The one you risked y...
SUSAN EE

We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing
SUSAN GLASPELL

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak...
SUSAN KAY

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."

[Speech upon being awa...
SUSAN SONTAG

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

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Susan Hayward

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

Susan Hayward

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