Sarah Vowell Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
Gail Devers -
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.
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When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
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Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.
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It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
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If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.
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Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them.
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I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.
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Even writers need relief from words.
