Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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I started out doing musicals.
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Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
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Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.
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It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
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Most people can't talk as fast as I do. I'm not proud of that. That's God-given.
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If you're going to wear three hats, you'd better grow two more heads.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
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You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
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Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
