Sarah Vowell Quotes
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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The truth about filmmaking is you have all these ideas and you're trying to convince everybody that they should buy into this idea, but at two o'clock in the morning when you're all on your own you're going, 'Geez, I hope I know what I'm doing. I hope this idea is gonna work.'
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
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I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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Adult gorillas being poached for their meat-baby gorillas stolen for the pet trade. I have just spent a week in West Africa seeing this for myself. I am horrified. I am desperate. But I am determined to do something about it and I'm in it for the long-haul. But I can't do it on my own.
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The more things you do, the more things you can do.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process.
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I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
