Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. “You are not.” “Well, I have floozy ambitions.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists. The doctor/psychiatrist figures in my writing are alter egos of a kind, what I would have been had I not become a writer - a personal fantasy that I've fed into my fiction.
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Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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We always write way more than we put on a record. We always write a lot-lot.
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
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It occurred to me that a food drive would be a natural way to talk to kids about hunger, which so many of them simply aren't aware of.
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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.
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I’m not comfortable with comfort. I’m only comfortable when I’m in a place where I’m constantly learning and growing.
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If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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If you’re calling her a floozy, I’m by way of being a bit of a floozy myself.” “Oh, Jared,” said Kami, who was well aware of his romantic experience, or total lack thereof. “You are not.” “Well, I have floozy ambitions.
