Sarah Dessen Quotes
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Madison Davenport
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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.
Ian Anderson
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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.
Jackie Collins
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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!
Mac DeMarco
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T. S. Eliot
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
Olivier Theyskens
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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.
T. Boone Pickens
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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.
Kate Clinton
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
Madeleine Albright
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
Larry King
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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.
Ted Yoho
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Xenophon
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
Carice van Houten
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I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.
Zadie Smith
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
Nate Silver
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...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
Sarah Dessen
