Sarah Churchwell Quotes
People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 'Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?'
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.
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I don't have any expectations of anything.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
