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 wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
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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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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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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 Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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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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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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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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Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.
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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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I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.
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Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.
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It isn't hard to stay in shape.
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I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus.
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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.
