Sarah Vowell Quotes

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.

Sarah Vowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 27, 1969

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I like moving, challenging myself.

Amy Purdy

MyselfMovingLikeChallenging

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Amber Tamblyn

WorkBusinessLuckYouActingOut

That's one of the great lies of intimacy, to pretend you know everything - you cannot. No matter how close you've been, over however many years, there remain secrets. I think we all know that - that you don't tell everybody everything.

Siri Hustvedt

GreatThinkYouSecretsKnowMatter

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

Sloane Crosley

MyselfThinkKnowBeingMemoirJust

My proudest moment was the number 'Reviewing the Situation.' I suspect that, because I gave my all to the role and because I was working with such a fine team of people, it inhibited my future career.

Ron Moody

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There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.

Debra Granik

LifeArtYouLovingWillOut

The only thing an adult can give a child is time.

Chuck Jones

TimeChildAdultGiveOnlyThing

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Anthony Burgess

GreatSlangCreators

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk, Jr.

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I'm not pessimistic about anything.

Paul Watson

AnythingAboutPessimistic

I think timing is everything.

Tionne Watkins

ThinkTimingEverythingI Think

To be honest, if people thought my performance in 'The Office' was the same as my performance in 'The Hobbit,' it would tell me everything I needed to know about what they know about acting.

Martin Freeman

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