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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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.
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And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...)
