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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Idina Menzel
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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.

  

  Irina Shayk
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Ralph Baer
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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.

  

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

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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.

  

  Maya Angelou
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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.

  

  Karen Allen
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
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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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• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

  Wayne Grady
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• I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

  

  Britta Phillips
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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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