Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
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If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
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Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for 'women and the lazy.' His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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If no one is corrupt, no one will be poor.
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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.
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I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
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Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
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All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
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Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
