Alice Sebold Quotes
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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Life in New York can be so, I don't know, chaotic, overwhelming, busy, frantic, and often, seniors can easily get overlooked.
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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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On 'Game of Thrones', the people that I've met, of the people behind the scenes, was not even a scratch of the vast crew that actually does work on that show.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
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The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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My closest friend and brother – this world is lucky to have a great personality as Kim Il Sung. This causes my boundless happiness. The fate of the world revolution and the international communist movement are on your shoulders, Comrade Kim Il Sung. I wish you long life and good health.
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Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
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I think you only learn what kind of personality you have by committing to things.
