Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.
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It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
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When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.
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The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
