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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• We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

  

  Coco Chanel
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• I can juggle, not well... I can balance a broom on my chin. I can do very simple carny tricks, a little sleight of hand with cards and coins.

  

  Rich Sommer
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• That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

  

  Malik Jackson
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• Good dog! Nice fetch!" "He wasn't fetching." "Bring her here, boy. Good job!" The dog looked from Zack to me. "I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
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• Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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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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