Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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Being a single mother in the late 1950s was a very shocking thing - and dreadful thing - for people.
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People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.
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Greatest misconception about Wikipedia: We aren’t democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we’re actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn’t be writing.
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Some people erroneously believe that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members are not Christian. We have difficulty understanding why anyone could accept and promote an idea that is so far from the truth.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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I feel like a Mac store! I have a Canadian iPhone, an American iPhone and an iPad. I'm constantly downloading music to iTunes.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.
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She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with the wrong people.
