Sara Gruen Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.
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I can do whatever I want.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.
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I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.
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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.
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I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.
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If you're going to do a thing, do it fully so that no writing you give the world misrepresents you - so that nothing you put out there is like a sad regift you couldn't throw away and had to find a place for.
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I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.
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For me, the shaping of the story is more important than accuracy.
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The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.
