Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

Sarah Addison Allen

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• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Father

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• Dance should mean something to you.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • You
  • Mean
  • Dance

• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Game
  • Care
  • Teammates

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• There's something about the schedule of working in TV that's attractive. You know exactly what the next six months is going to be like: You'll work Monday through Friday and have the weekends off, and then there's going to be a hiatus here, so you can kind of plan a little bit.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Plan

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • More
  • Artists
  • Others

• I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Band
  • Attitude

• Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Long
  • Real
  • Hurt

• My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.

  

  Leon Max
  • People
  • Remember
  • Wife

• I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

  

  David Mamet

• I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Life
  • Live

• Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Control
  • Childhood
  • Cancer

• You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

  

  James Salter
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Rudy Giuliani's first wife was his cousin. Did you know this? I think that's a very cheap way to go after the Southern vote.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Wife
  • Cousin

• The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Value

• The best decision I ever made was to invest in myself, both financially and time-wise.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Invest

• Michigan has always been my favorite track. It just has everything going for it. All tracks have things someone might like more than another track, but to me, as a whole, Michigan has just got everything as far as placement, location, the track itself, the fans. A little bit of everything just seems like it goes a long way there. It's always a treat to go to Michigan, and when you run good there it helps. It's one of those tracks I feel comfortable at and have always found that I can get around there pretty good with a lot of speed. I'm looking forward to doing both the Cup and Busch events this weekend. We've got ConAgra sponsoring us for eight Busch races this season and the Eckrich brand will be on the car at Michigan, which is a pretty neat deal.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Fans
  • Deal
  • Weekend

• The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

  

  Lecrae
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Practice
  • Animal
  • Firsts

• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

  

  Wilder Penfield
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Lifetime

• How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Helping
  • Charity