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 hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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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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I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.
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I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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Life is the most spectacular show on earth.
