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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused. ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it.
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I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
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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.
