Sarah Dessen Quotes
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.

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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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The moment an athlete doesn't train, things start to get a bit rusty.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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He knew what had to be done. It is not always the same as knowing what to do.
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Record labels, which used to have complete control, are essentially irrelevant. The process of a band exposing itself to the world is extremely democratic and there are no barriers. Music is no longer a commodity, it’s an environment, or atmospheric element. Consumers have much more choice and you see people indulging in the specificity of their tastes dramatically more. They only bother with music they like.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
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I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.
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No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.