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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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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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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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
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The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!
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I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.
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I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and it makes it easier for a reader to go into a bookshop and choose, but as a writer, it helps to get rid of all of that and imagine you are a storyteller around a campfire.
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I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
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Adieu les monstres! Adieu les saints! Adieu l'orgueil! Il n'y a que des hommes.
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I love books about dysfunctional families.
