Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
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Nowhere is Universalism welcomed and encouraged by a people; everywhere governments have forced and are forcing Universalism upon unwilling and resistant subjects.
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We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.
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Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.
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When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.
