Sara Sheridan Quotes
It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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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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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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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 sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
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I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.
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Part of what makes for good writing is an ear for what we would call the poetical. Poetry itself is another thing and it seems to me to be the most difficult writing - that those people are the best writers and they lead the way for everyone else and their writing is frighteningly great.
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I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
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In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
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Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.
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It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.
