Sara Shepard Quotes
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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There is a healthy amount of self-doubt and criticism with most people that make music. You find your areas that are your best. Onstage, I am good. But talking to someone in the grocery store? Forget about it.
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American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
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I love books about dysfunctional families.
