Sarah Burton Quotes
We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Practices were tough.
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I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
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My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina strikes, and then the conversation only lasts as long as the news cycle. His family squatted in shacks. The children scavenged for food.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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Oh gosh, I dyed my hair red when I was in year 11 with that L'Oreal Live stuff. It was like plumy purple - it was horrific. I looked awful; I don't know what I was thinking!
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.
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Like sisters throughout time, whatever battles raged between them, it was always, always, all four of them against the rest of the world.
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We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.
