Sara Coleridge Quotes
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
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I still like the physicality of papers.
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I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.
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I went through a rebellious phase, and was super into doing crazy hair things. I did only wear black for my junior year of high school. I was one of those kids.
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Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).
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I've got no religious beliefs at all.
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You have to catch the breaks.
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But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
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In late January 2016, as quoted in 'The Obama Doctrine' by Jeffrey Goldberg, in The Atlantic (April 2016)
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The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.
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Late April and you are three; today
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I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.
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If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!
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April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.
