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.

Sara Gruen

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• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• 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.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Think
  • Trump

• 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.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Worry

• 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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Stage
  • Now
  • London

• 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.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Great
  • College
  • Depression

• 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.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Like
  • See
  • Would

• I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Know
  • Wonderful
  • Going

• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

  

  Sallust
  • Man
  • Action
  • Thought

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Commerce

• I have long been of the mindset that aviators are like leather jackets - when they're perfect, they give you 'instant cool.' They're the Alexa Chung of sunglasses.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Long
  • Perfect
  • Cool

• The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Start

• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Book
  • Power
  • Words

• I am a helicopter pilot. Something that gives me pleasure sometimes is taking my helicopter to go high, 2000 meter, 6000 feet, to go there and feel like a bird. In this moment I feel free.

  

  Roberto Cavalli
  • Sometimes
  • Moment
  • Helicopter

• I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Certain