Sarah Pinborough Quotes
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.
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Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.
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To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.
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Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life - it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound and universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
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Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
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'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.
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I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.
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I would say national security is work in progress.
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When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the business say, 'Come along just as you are,' is really an incredible thing.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.
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Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
