Sara Gilbert Quotes
I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
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We were so busy that we didn't have time to think about how terrible it was or - in fact it felt strangely natural.
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Johnny almost grinned as he nodded. "Tuff enough," he managed, and by the way his eyes were glowing, I figured Southern gentlemen had nothing on Johnny Cade.
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If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.
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A lot of times, people are reserved or maybe scared of testing what your body is capable of. I'm not.
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Running for office in our country takes a lot of money, and candidates have to go out and raise it. New York is probably the leading site for contributions for fundraising for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and it's also our economic center. And there are a lot of people here who should ask some tough questions before handing over campaign contributions to people who were really playing chicken with our whole economy.
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Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.
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I love being the age I am, because if there's enough pain or grief, I have enough experience now to realize that there's joy coming around the corner.
