Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.
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You can ask me anything you want; I'm very opinionated... except about my private life. I don't want to talk about that.
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I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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Really good ideas are always good beyond what you anticipated originally.
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You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
