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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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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What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.
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If I want the day off, the boss never says 'No.' I paint away listening to an iTunes jazz station called KCSM Jazz Radio. It's perfect. Good music and no news traffic or celebrities.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The world has progressed to the point where it's most powerful force is public opinion. And I believe that in this world it is not the great book or epic play, as once was the case, that will shape that opinion, but those who understand mass media and the techniques of mass persuasion...We must not just believe in what we sell. We must sell what we believe in. And we must pour a vast energy into those causes.
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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.
