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.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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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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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
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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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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on.
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Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
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I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.
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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.
