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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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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The thing with me is, I'm both untidy and I hate mess. But I'm not untidy in communal spaces, like living rooms. My bedroom is havoc.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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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.
