Sara Zarr Quotes
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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At the earliest age, when I saw a 'wet paint' sign, I had to touch the paint to see if it was wet. When I get stopped at the stoplight in the middle of the night, and there's just no cars coming, and the light is red, I go. I don't think I'm putting anyone in harm's way, and I'll just take the consequences. Because I'm a Libertarian.
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A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.
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All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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There are many ways to be a criminal or hero. Don't forget that.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
