Sarah Dessen Quotes
You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I've been pretty lucky with neighbors. But back in 1998, I lived, like, literally next door to Wrigley Field in Chicago. And I had, like, 50,000 bad neighbors spread out over the course of one summer. I'm a diehard Cubs fan, but living right next to the ballpark, it's just - as you're trying to go to sleep, you can just, like, hear urination.
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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I'd love my children no matter what.
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Seems like we were always running away from President Obama or trying to undo what he's done.
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No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.
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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
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I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties, trying to find my higher calling.
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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.
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I used to love hand raising.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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I have always gone about this business on the basis that one cannot have a partnership unless there is equity among partners. Equity, of course, is historically a British concept, but I think that it is one that we bring to the European Community.
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When I was a teenager, my parents made me take a part-time job at the local Black Eyed Pea, which was a home-cooked-food family restaurant.
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You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
