Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There's still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
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The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.
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One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
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All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
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Women's bodies have always been used as a spectacle and objectified.
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If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.
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When I got the audition for 'Big Little Lies,' I knew this project was going to be different than anything I'd ever done. That didn't change the way I approached the role.
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You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.
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The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
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The new season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition.
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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
