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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As all of our lives become digital, the logic of encryption is all of our lives will be covered by strong encryption, and therefore all of our lives - including the lives of criminals and terrorists and spies - will be in a place that is utterly unavailable to court-ordered process. And that, I think, to a democracy should be very, very concerning.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.
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If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?
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We know in order to get where we want to be and do what we want to be doing, sometimes we have to do what we don't feel like doing. It takes hard work, and the band name is a constant reminder of that.
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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.
