Sara Zarr Quotes
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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Customers often value a good more when its price goes up. One reason may be its signaling value. An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
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It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.
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If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends.
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I get so carried away in interviews and deliver 1,500-word treatises, then find it's been reduced to something pithier but also not quite accurate. Although I imagine there are people I work with who wish they could edit me every day.
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Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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Some people come into your life and leave a mark.
