Sara Zarr Quotes
I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
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If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.
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Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.
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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
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A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes people forget that a lot of changes have to be made because we're not in a book when we're watching a movie.
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
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I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.
