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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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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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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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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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.
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Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.
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The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs.
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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.
