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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In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of their beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
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Writers write without support.
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The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
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There is an edginess in my work that people don't always recognize.
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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
