Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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When I found out about the audition, I knew that I was going in for 'From Dusk Till Dawn,' but I actually didn't know that I was going to be reading with Robert Rodriguez.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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The main thing is to know something and to say it.
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You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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I am determined to try to rebuild and renew this country in ways that will build community and level the playing field. To me, that means making certain that the fight to preserve our civil liberties is waged, making certain the fight against discrimination is waged, making certain that women have opportunity in this country.
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...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
