Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.
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I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.
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Take the back roads instead of the highways.
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It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.
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Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.
