Sara Zarr Quotes
Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.
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First you have to witness that you are stressing out: Oh, my trigger is here. The news is stressing me out or This line is so long. Let yourself feel it. You don't want to spiritually bypass these problems. Give yourself a couple of minutes to sit in the feeling. Acceptance sets you free from the stress of expectation.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)
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Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
