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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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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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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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway.
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Effective teaching involves explaining to our children what they're already observing in our lives by example.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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My aspirations were never anything other than I really, really admired certain singers over the years, and I just wanted to do the best I could. And that has been kind of like the way I've been fortunate enough to be able to have a career, have some success, and yet continue to learn my craft.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
