Sarah Dessen Quotes
I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
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Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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So much of Islam is Judeo-Christianity. It's impossible to divorce them. Islam is 600 years after Christ. Thousands of years after Judaism. Christ, Moses, Abraham - they are all in the Koran.
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Are we going to just change the personalities in the speakership? Or are we going to fundamentally transform the way we do business here in Washington, D.C.?
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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I've now been in over 100 adverts for Walkers, and we've had a lot of laughs along the way.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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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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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.
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'Are stories true?''Which ones?''The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them.''Well,' says Ma, 'not literally.''What's-''They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today.''So they're fake?''No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.'
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
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You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.
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I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.
