Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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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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The fear of rejection really kind of stunts your growth as a person. I mean, it's like a friend of mine says, who cares if you fail? Who cares if you fail? It's like babies try to get up and walk all the time and they keep falling down. If we just gave up, we'd all be crawling around.
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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Undeniably, character does count for our citizens, out communities, and our Nation, and this week we celebrate the importance of character in our individual lives... core ethical values of trustworthiness, fairness, responsibility, caring, respect, and citizenship form the foundation of our democracy, our economy, and our society... Instilling sound character in our children is essential to maintaining the strength of our Nation into the 21st century.
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By the time I was in my teens, I was reading science fiction. I had this maternal uncle who had cartons of books. It's important to read because you have to fill your head with words.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.
