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
  • Father
  • Think

• 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

• The social and educational value of preschool is undisputed.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Value

• All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • God
  • Knows
  • Causes

• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Earth

• For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • History
  • True

• When I remember how unhappy I was in adolescence - about the fact that, though I wasn't really using the term to or for myself, I knew that I was gay - I think, "Oh, if someone then could have shown me just an hour in the life that I have now, I would have made it through all of that misery and despair just fine." The pain lay in thinking that I had a desolate future.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Character
  • Helping
  • Excitement

• 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