Sarah Zettel Quotes
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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I can't really say I miss my toes.
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To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.
