Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

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• I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Research
  • Academic
  • Storyteller

• If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Man
  • Learning
  • Horse

• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Artist
  • Ability

• I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Life
  • Never
  • Child

• We must forget the prewar time, which was totally different. The sooner we adjust ourselves to the new, changed world, to its new, albeit harsh, beauties, the sooner will each individual be able to find his own personal happiness. The distress of Germany will spiritualize and deepen us.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• I like my hands. They do most of the talking.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Like
  • Hands
  • Talking

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Selfish

• The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Want
  • You
  • Pay

• If I am training on a holiday, most likely nobody else is - and that gives me the edge. If I'm supposed to run for 20 minutes and I get back and it's only been 19:34, I'm going to jog in a circle for 26 more seconds. I'm never going to cut it short.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Training
  • Holiday
  • Short

• I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

  

  Ice T
  • Different
  • Change
  • Intelligent

• I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Jane

• The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Thing

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Child
  • Walking

• I had, to be sure, been drawn into economics when the General Theory was an exciting revelation for students hungry for explanation and remedy of the Great Depression. At the same time, I was uncomfortable with several aspects of Keynes’ theory, and I sought to improve what would now be called the microfoundations of his macroeconomic relations.

  

  James Tobin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Depression

• Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

  

  Brian Andreas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Giving