Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.
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I have ideas that I think might be amusing, and I try them, and if they look right, I carry them out, and if they don't, I throw them out and try something else. I don't agonize about it.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
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I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. … For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form-it may be called fleeting or eternal-is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.
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I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.
