Sarah Dessen Quotes
If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
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Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
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If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
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In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter if the other person doesn't know. Look, I'm not breaking new ground by recording people who don't want to be recorded.
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If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.
