Sara Gruen Quotes
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We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.
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I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.
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And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
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My body and my will are one.
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A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?
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Action, not words.
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Movies make you immortal and ageless.
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Food is a big part of my life.
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It's interesting: when you're kind of 'known' for being a writer, people don't think you've done anything else.
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I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
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In the midst of all dwells the Sun. For who could set this luminary in another or better place in this most glorious temple, than whence he can at one and the same time brighten the whole.
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There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies.
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I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.
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I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.
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The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.
