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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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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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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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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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?
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Playing in New York, there's a lot of pressure, but me and some Europeans like the pressure.
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They'll be very similar to the widgets you see in Apple's Mac OS X.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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I'm a very secretive person.
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The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'
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I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
