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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Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.
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Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
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Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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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.
