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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'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.
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The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.
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I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
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I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.
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I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.
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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.
