You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.


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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
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