Sarah Vowell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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Never settle for second when first is available
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I play every game like it's my last game. All that matters is that you go out there and play every game as if it was your last.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.
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It's impossible to always get across what I'm trying to say, but, if I just stay honest, then I'm not going to look back on any of these interviews and wonder what I was trying to do or be.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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My own perception is that there are two tiers of countries, one, the original ASEAN, and then the new members. The new members are in various stages of development.
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Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.
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I know my comfort zone and I know what my strong points are and my first love was always music. I'm a huge cinema fan. I was taking my time; I got offered a lot of scripts and things along the way but until Burlesque showed up at my doorstep, it really spoke to me. I have a collection of burlesque books at home that I've had for years. I've always been intrigued and fascinated with the topic, the beauty and the art of it and the comedic value of it. I think it's just a beautiful, empowering thing for women.
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Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.
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I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.
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Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.
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Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
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What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
