Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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There's always a source for humor.
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It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.
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I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team.
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The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.
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What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
