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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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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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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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
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Every art form changes, often at rates and in ways that cause discomfort to its devotees. But the arts also have a remarkable ability to withstand and absorb those changes, and to prove wrong the prophecies of their demise.
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This soup tastes like windows...
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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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.
