Sarah Kay Quotes
I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I personally don't think you should ever date someone you work with, will work with, etc. I won't ever date an actor.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The Constitution was made for ordinary people.
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I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.
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I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
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The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.
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Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow.
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I wasn't really writing anything that I felt was worth it at the end, but then certain things sparked me as a solo writer - to be able to try new things and experiment, and ultimately challenge myself as a performer and as a songwriter and just to commit to ideas, and not be afraid to be myself.
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I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.
