Sara Zarr Quotes
It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.
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I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
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I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
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Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.
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I don't know that it's particularly good for my writing process, but I have gotten some very valuable writing ideas and advice through Twitter and Facebook and other social network sites.
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I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.
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Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?
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It certainly woke me up to how vulnerable we all are. I think I was much more cavalier about it before I started working on the movie [Edward Snowden], and then the more I read the documents themselves and saw just how sweeping and indiscriminate the intrusions into our privacy have been, it made me more aware.
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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
