Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand.
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I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
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Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
