Sarah Dessen Quotes

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

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• New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.

  

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• Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

  

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• The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

  

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• When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'

  

  Sally Field
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• I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.

  

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• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

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• I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.

  

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• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

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• I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

  

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• I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.

  

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• I was born in West Baltimore, lived in a situation in which violence was everywhere.

  

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• Most of us have days or weeks or months so awful, we wish we'd never been born.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  

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• Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.

  

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• We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

  

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• If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
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• The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

  

  Idries Shah
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• [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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• Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  

  David Lammy
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• Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget.

  

  William W. Johnstone
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• I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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