Sara Gruen Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I'm so happy when I'm working.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.
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I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.
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I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.
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People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
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There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.
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It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.
