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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There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.
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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 had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
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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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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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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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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
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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.
