Sara Gruen Quotes
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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Getting out of the way is really important.
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
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Working together is a way of knowing each other better.
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You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.
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Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.
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If you eat food or produce, you should take into account where that food comes from.
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Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.
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Spiritual connection does not mean romance
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I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
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Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or dwell on these as they encounter the quotidian events of their day.
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People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
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There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.
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I did a piece where I was talking about torture at Abu Ghraib, and I embroidered my hand with the image of the hooded Abu Ghraib prisoners who'd been tortured using a needle and thread. I know that meeting a Holocaust survivor when I was eight and seeing the tattoo on her arm from her time in the camps influenced my piece about Abu Ghraib.
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Being the survivor stinks.
