Sarah Vowell Quotes

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

Sarah Vowell

• Dark
• Eye
• Circles
• Someday

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• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

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• As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

  

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• I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

  

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• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

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• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

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• I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

  

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• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

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• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

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• I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

  

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• When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.

  

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• I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.

  

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• I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

  

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• For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.

  

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• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

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• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

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• I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

  

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• There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film.

  

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• Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

  

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• Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.

  

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• It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.

  

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• I thought I needed to go to one of the top five schools in the nation and never even thought 'What's important to me?' Instead of figuring out what was important, which was obviously being near home, I kind of just went with what everyone thought I should do.

  

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• Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity.

  

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• If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Dark
  • Eye
  • Circles