Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.
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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
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It was a cold, disapproving gaze, such as a fastidious luncher who was not fond of caterpillars might have directed at one which he had discovered in his portion of salad...
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The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for disappointment with every success that you deliver because with every success you raise your readers' expectations.
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It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.
