Sara Sheridan Quotes
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
Quotes to Explore
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When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.
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There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it.
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I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn't allow me to do it. They both said to me, 'I'm not going anywhere.' And that moved me so deeply.
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I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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Michael Brown happened to be black. Trayvon Martin happened to be black. Eric Garner was a black man. So this pattern continues over and over.
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Cap and trade is not an easy one for refiners, so we tried to get some moderation in the bill, and we did, but not near as much I would like.
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The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.
