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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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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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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I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.
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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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The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.
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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
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You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.
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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.
