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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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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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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Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
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Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.
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I believe psychics are either kooks or they're tapping into a real power. But it is not, it's not a holy power, it's an evil power. No offense to James Van Praagh, because I think that he has a good heart and he really believes that what he is doing is good, and perhaps you are deceived…
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It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda.
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Anybody's life is probably a mess of secrets and lies when you boil it right down.
