Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was taller than they were, but I've no idea that this ever happened. When I did 'Much Ado About Nothing' opposite Mark Rylance in the West End, we used the difference in our heights as part of their relationship.
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Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
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Speak from your heart, not your head. You speak from your head, you can wind up getting yourself in a lot of crap. You speak from your heart, I think you're pretty safe.
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I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
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An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
