Sarah Dessen Quotes

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.

  

  Ze Frank
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• I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.

  

  Iris Apfel
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• The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
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• We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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• In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
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• My face is not perfect. Because my nose is not sharp, many people suggested I should get my nose done.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• Gun violence in Chicago is unacceptable. It threatens everything we have done together and all of the progress we have made in other areas.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
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• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
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• Unfortunately for the 'Tomorrow' series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
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• If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. The American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation.

  

  Barack Obama
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• When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Sometimes I’m misunderstood and it’s hard to come by that. My life has been full of excitement. I’ve done pretty much what I wanted to do. I came from the Midwest, from South Dakota, and I came up the hard way. We lived on a farm; we didn’t even have electricity or running water if you know what I mean. People don’t know what that life is like.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
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• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  

  Arna Bontemps

• Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

  

  Larry Elder
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• But why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how many, what day it's gonna happen, and how many this or that or what do you suppose? Or, I mean, it's not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that, and watch him (her husband, former president George H. W. Bush) suffer?

  

  Barbara Bush
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• The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.

  

  Leslie Caron

• Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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