Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I'm pro Union.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
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The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.
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I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!
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Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
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There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.
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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
