Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
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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.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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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.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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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.
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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.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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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.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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I love design.
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I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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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.
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When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
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We wanted people to be able to see her from all around.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.
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Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.
