Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people's participation and E for equality.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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Thug: You're gonna give us $10,000, or we're gonna break both your legs.
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Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.
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Immigration is the most difficult issue I've ever dealt with, and I've dealt with some tough issues: drones, gays in the military, WikiLeaks, Guantanamo. But immigration is hardest because there are so few people willing to talk and build consensus. Everybody's firmly made up their mind. It's a polarized issue.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Generally, in Gujarati families, people get married early, and all my friends are married with two kids. My father had told me, 'If you do not find a right partner, do not get married'; that's the advice he has always given me. So, I will never compromise in my marriage.
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I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
