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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success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a bad smell when you approach. Lots of expensive, late-model cars are offered in the L.A. Times every day by people who have suddenly begun to smell bad. The stakes are just too high for human dignity.
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Think first. Think twice. Think again. Respect others. Respect yourself. Respect dreams.
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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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"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
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My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.
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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.
