Sara Gruen Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Best Buy is just too Western! They do not stock enough Chinese brands, and Chinese people do not want to buy foreign brands.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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I love 70's music.
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Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.
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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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I love dark chocolate, 70 percent and up.
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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
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Liz Benedict, a teacher of mine at Iowa, is the person who introduced me to James Salter's work.
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Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.
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I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
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New country music comprises about five percent of what I hear per year. I enjoy it, but I don't really take note of who's singing it or writing it.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
