Sarah Dessen Quotes
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.
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We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.
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My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
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We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.
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Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
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People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
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The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
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I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.
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You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up.
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Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.
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People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.
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Not enough people in this world are happy.
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We're a basketball family.
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During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.
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But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.
