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 think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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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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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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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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Medio de fonte leporumsurgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.
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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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To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen).
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My first true lesson in writing came from Mr. Bowden when I was 16. At my high school, he was the teacher known to be the very best at literature and writing.
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The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.
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I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
