Sarah Vowell Quotes
Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.
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I draft tweets, like, 20 times.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
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For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.
