Sarah Vowell Quotes
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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I don't have goals in life.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.
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I admire actresses like Jennifer Lawrence, who says what she thinks.
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Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?