Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
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My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to register to vote. My dad's Republican, so that's what I decided to register as.
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I never expected to make a lot of money from music.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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You see, but you do not observe.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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Held in the custody of childhood is a locked chest; the adolescent, by one means or another, tries to open it. The chest is opened: inside, there is nothing. So he reaches a conclusion: the treasure chest is always like this, empty. From this point on, he gives priority to this assumption of his rather than to reality. In other words, he is now a 'grown-up.'
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In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.
