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.
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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?
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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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.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.
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My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
