Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.Sarah Addison Allen
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
Barbara Corcoran -
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Carl Hiaasen -
It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.
Dakota Johnson -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
Ian Goldin
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
J. K. Simmons -
As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
Gary Ackerman -
To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach -
My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
Oscar Isaac -
No dream is ever chased alone.
Rahul Dravid
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Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
F. Sionil Jose -
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener -
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
Felix Dennis -
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Pablo Picasso -
So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
Patrick Rothfuss
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There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
Mary Wortley Montagu -
Until I'm over the hill and over the hump; I'm gonna let my music bump and give the people what they want.
Aceyalone -
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
Barry Ritholtz -
It's really hard to be a story writer - no matter how much acclaim you get - and not write a novel.
David Means -
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
W. A. Criswell -
She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.
Sarah Addison Allen