Sarah Monette Quotes
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
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I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the next disappointment to make me feel like a complete failure.
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I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.
