Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Quite simply, my writing life has been one of relish, challenge, excitement.
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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The more you know, the less you are impressed by Foucault.
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
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I am ashamed to be Australian in these times.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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I'm honestly so incredibly grateful for every opportunity I get in film industry. Don't forget! I was born in a tiny little country in a small town and here I am working in Canada and America and it's incredible.
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Being Grateful. That is the first step on the path to Joy.
