Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.
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I wanted to be the Great Liberating Teacher, to raise them from their knees after days of drudgery in office and factories, to help them cast off their shackles, to lead them to the mountaintop, to breathe the air of freedom. Once their minds were clear of cant, they’d see me as a savior.
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That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'
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I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.
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For me, politics is about passion. It doesn't matter what you know; it's your actions that count. I meet people who say they're socialists, and that's not what they carry out in their everyday life.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
