Shari Sebbens Quotes
Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
Quotes to Explore
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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I didn't feel ready to leave home, because it went from no freedom to all freedom. And I was like, 'Oh, my God, I don't know what I'm doing in college.' There seemed to be no like-minded people where I was... I didn't have a clan. I didn't have a choir... There was no safety net.
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To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.
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John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.
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Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.
