Sarah Polley Quotes
I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.
Sarah Polley
Quotes to Explore
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
Pankaj Mishra
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
Wayne Rooney
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
D. J. MacHale
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
Laura Osnes
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
Orhan Pamuk
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
Faith Hill
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
Larry Brown
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We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
Wendy Kopp
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
Ignatius of Antioch
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
Ada Yonath
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Walter Jon Williams
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
Barack Obama
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He 'the male' is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.
Valerie Solanas
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Ninety-nine people out of a hundred have not seriously considered what they mean by the term 'exist' nor how a thing qualifies itself to be labelled real.
Arthur Eddington
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The function which the wing performs against the air when the air is motionless is the same as that of the air moved against the wings when these are without motion.
Leonardo da Vinci
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
Adam Smith
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...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.
Elliott Bisnow
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I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
Deborah Cox
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.
Sarah Dessen
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
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I'm a control freak and I like to be overprepared, and I'm overly organized and I'm not in the moment a lot of the time.
Sarah Polley
