Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
Quotes to Explore
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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Twitter is worth it if you like tweeting. Same is true of Facebook. Or Pinterest. Nothing wrong with having a social presence.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Happiness is doing it rotten your own way.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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On 'Workaholics,' I feel like I'm just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on 'Mindy,' I'm around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
