Sarah Dessen Quotes
All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.
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I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
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The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.
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I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.
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In the real world, children love me.
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Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.
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Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
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I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.
