Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.
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In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist.
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It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them.
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.
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It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
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As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
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A certain ounce of arrogance is not essential in carrying forward an idea. In talking about the device with others, surprising now number of people who either were quite negative and had reasons to suggest it would not function as described or claimed that it would be of little interest and no better than some already existing device.
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Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.
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Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.
