Sarah Kay Quotes
If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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Die then. This is my cure for sore knees.
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
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When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.
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Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
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If I should have a daughter… I’m gonna paint the solar system on the backs of her hands so she has to learn the entire universe before she can say ‘oh I know that like the back of my hand.
