Sara Gruen Quotes
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.
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To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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I'm very serious about acting.
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I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
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Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
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My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.
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Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
