Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.
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If I'm not learning from something that I'm doing, then that means I've done it before. Do something different, even if it's within the same medium.
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They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
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Woe to the man who offends a small child!
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Certainly with The Crucible, what I love is that every role in that is so crucial.But there's something almost comic. I remember there's that line where she says, "I am 18 and a woman, however single," which killed me every time!
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I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard.
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So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.
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Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.
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You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.
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A smart girl leaves before she is left.
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You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.
