Sarah Dessen Quotes
You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I know there are some actors who won't switch their accents off when they're on set and like to be called by their character's names. That works for them, and that's great.
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The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter's lives the relationship becomes a permanent "maybe.
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I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.
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I choose my roles carefully.
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
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You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.
