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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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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.
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
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I think doing things that scare you a little is a good thing. A little bit of fear is never a bad thing. A healthy amount of fear makes everything taste better.
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You can't value others until you value yourself.
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Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
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I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.
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My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
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If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together and then have this kind of innocent bravado.
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Unfortunately, I'm one of those idiots who knows everything about health and is in a constant state of alarm, and yet I continue to do everything I shouldn't do.
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That connection that I have with my fans is really special, and every time, when I have moments, when I have free time, the only thing that I think about is what I'm going to post, what I'm going to say to my fans.
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To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
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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.
