Sara Gruen Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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A lot of the time, people think I'm really dumb or really uncomfortable talking to them, which is kind of a real thing.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.
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As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
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When I fall, I fall hard.
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The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
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We have all these ideas and visions, and they're able to come to life, and our voices are being heard, which is really amazing.
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It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late.
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If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to leave the next day. So then we developed a framework which should have been acceptable as a concept to the Chinese, namely to express regret for the loss of life and maintain our position that we had a right to fly these missions.
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Life is the most spectacular show on earth.
