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'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.
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I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side
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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.
