Sarah Dessen Quotes
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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People tend to think that numbers are quite objective, but numbers in economics are not like this. Some economists say they're like sausages: you don't know what they really are until you cut into them.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I am quite fortunate, because I can still be quite incognito. If you go out looking for attention, then you'll attract it, but if you're just getting on with your life, particularly in London where everyone is engrossed in what they're doing, you can keep a measure of anonymity.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past.
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Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.
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It's very important what you say to kids. You have to walk a very fine line between talking about your life and talking about what you've done.
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I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else.
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Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!
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I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
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What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.
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The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
