Sarah Addison Allen Quotes

Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

Sarah Addison Allen

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• People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Fear
  • Doubt

• I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Remember
  • Think
  • Name

• One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Different
  • Live
  • Mind

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • People
  • Remember
  • Together

• I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Day
  • Bible

• Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Good
  • Real
  • You

• What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

  

  Ovid
  • Pain
  • Grief
  • Calmness

• I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Couple

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Push

• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • True
  • Faith

• There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Live
  • Couple
  • Letting Go

• One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Art
  • Should

• I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Climb

• If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

  

  Gardiner Spring
  • Prayer
  • Christ
  • Divine

• Originality is dangerous.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dangerous
  • Originality

• [We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy
  • Should
  • Healthy

• When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.

  

  Morna Anne Murray
  • Heart
  • Young
  • Youth

• Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Youth
  • Steps
  • Adolescence