Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
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There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
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You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The advantage my looks gave me was that I wasn't limited to just playing Indian roles when I was abroad, and I've been abroad for almost twenty-five years.
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I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
