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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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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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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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.
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...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
