Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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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 was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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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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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.
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After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.
