Sarah Dessen Quotes
Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
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I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.
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I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time.
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Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.
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Larry poured himself a coffee. 'I hate when they come in here with computers. They sit forever at their tables, and they don't talk to nobody, it's like having a place full of statues or zombies.'
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So I will find my fears and face themor I will cower like a dogI will kick and scream or kneel and pleadI'll fight like hell to hide that I've given up
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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.
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Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.
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The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.
