Sarah Dessen Quotes
I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.
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I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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In L.A., it's easy to get wrapped up in this young Hollywood mess. You feel like you have to go out every night. You have to realize that you're here to work. I didn't move out here to party all the time.
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I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
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It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your child and want to do everything for it, and at the same time want to put it away from you and reclaim something of yourself.
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7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time.
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You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
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We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.
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Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
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I knew at the time that that wasn't the part I would be doing, they just wanted a screentest so they could have a look at it to show to the directors and producers. Then they wrote a part for me or maybe they already had it in mind, I don't know.
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
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Do men drop out of college because they get someone pregnant? Do they quit their job if they get someone pregnant? No. And we do not require men to support women they have made pregnant. Once the baby is born, there can be child support. Before that, though, no.
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I first got involved in soccer when I was three years old. And I played until I was sixteen, so for thirteen years, and I love it.
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I just have to be super strong when it comes to my work time. Shut the browser, ignore the email alerts, and just WRITE.
