Sara Gruen Quotes
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
