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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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
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Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
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Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution's flight plan.
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I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.
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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.
