Sarah Dessen Quotes
I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I feel like acting is a ton of fun. It's the freest and most alive you can be.
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I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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I hope kids feel gratitude for what they do have.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.
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Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.
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My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
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A quick shallow fry is a great way to transform leftovers, and no more so than in the case of risotto.
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
