Sally Pearson Quotes
My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
