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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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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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 want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
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And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.
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In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvising quite a bit of my scenes, and later I didn't even remember what I'd said because I just winged it. When I went and saw the movie, I was as stunned as everyone else was.
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A truce to philosophy! - Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.
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When you go from one part of the Turkish community to another, it's like you're moving from one century to another. People look at each other in a strange way, as if looking at someone from another planet, rather than trying to understand and open space for them.
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It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the way of what they want to do in their own world, which is to destroy police states and Israel.
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Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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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.
