Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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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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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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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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I wasn't an easy, happy-go-lucky girl because I used to think about everything so much, and I think I probably still do.
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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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Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year.
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I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.
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I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.
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I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.
