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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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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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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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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Every child dances, and then you learn not to.
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.
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I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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Playing characters who are wonderful and beautiful is hard because you don't feel like that most of the time... well, I don't. It's like this whole heart-throb nonsense. It's flattering, but that's not how I feel in the morning. It's something that goes with the job.
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It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.
