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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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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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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You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
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I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
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We no longer seek the 'cause' of events in the nature of a single isolated object, but in the relationship between an object and its surroundings.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.
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'Community,' that loaded word so beloved of politicians, is simply not a reality in most people's lives. It's normal for us to be cut off from each other.
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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.
