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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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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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 rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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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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They are often in a shame-based system, which attempts to cover over and even destroy the True Self.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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It's depicted in comics as, like, this gung-ho, 'Let's die in battle, in glory' idea, because that's just the genre we're in. But that's not what war really is.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people.
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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.
