Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'
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I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
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The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.
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People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
