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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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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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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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 think if you have any desire to be a leading man or to really carry some of these stories, there's this relationship that has to be cultivated with an audience. People have to be able to say your name.
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Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
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Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.
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Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
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Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.
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What is it to be white? It does mean something to be Norwegian. It means something to be Polish or German or Spanish. But 'white' is simply a catchall for 'light-skinned person.' It doesn't really mean anything.
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Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.1.
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As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.
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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.
