Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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I'm not really a girl who likes to go out to lunch or cocktails or store openings.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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Layne Staley Interviewed by Don Kaye in 1996.
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To find out where the origin of symmetry is would be to find out if God exists.
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Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
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I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
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If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.
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Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.
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The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.
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If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.
