"I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now."

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Source : Sarah Schulman (2010). “Rat Bohemia (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

Sarah Schulman

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“That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.”
“I dont know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent Im hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.”
“It's not about who is real to your face. It's about who stays real behind your back.”
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”
“I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.”
“When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was. I've been getting younger ever since.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't discuss my family with the press; I discuss my family with my family. If you notice, when you hear something sensational in the press about me, I don't respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don't need to talk about.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Success is more about doing the things you know you should do than discovering the secrets you don't yet know.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 09, 2017

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