Alice Sebold Quotes

For me, heaven would be a lack of alienation. The whole time I was growing up, I felt comfort was inherently evil. I think that, for me, heaven isn't about couches and milk shakes and never having a troubling thought again.

Alice Sebold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 6, 1963

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I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.

Joe Jonas

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I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

Jeremy Renner

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Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Andrew Garfield

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We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

Amy Purdy

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I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

Amy Bloom

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I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.

Stan Getz

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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Stuart Woods

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It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.

Simon Baker

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Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.

Ronny Chieng

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Ronald Reagan

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Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

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If I really want to be heard, I have that command, but a lot of heavy women don't. When I see someone heavy working on television, I say, 'Oh, God, go girl. You do it.' You know, it shouldn't stop your life.

Liz Torres

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