Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I like to travel by myself.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.
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I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behaveBut no one can be free until we're all on even grade.
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It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.
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The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines.
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I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now.
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Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
