Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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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.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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I am a Zionist.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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As a teenager, I preferred the company of boys to girls, focusing always on the most indifferent male and flirting with him until he became my slave.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.
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Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
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Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.
