Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.
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Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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Je crois qu'il faut presque toujours un coup de folie pour bâtir un destin.
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It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.
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I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
