Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.
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I want to be open about my condition to show others that they are not alone in dealing with this form of chronic hives. My advice for people with CIU is to talk to their doctor about their condition.
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It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.
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Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
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That's never been done before in the NFL, so you'd have to say that this team is going to play a lot of close games, ... It's been phenomenal all the way across the board. They go after it super hard. Whether it's on offense, defense or special teams, they make key plays when they have to late in the game.
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I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
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When people talk about televisual phenomena such as 'Big Brother,' I haven't a clue what they're talking about. Having said that, if I'm staying in a hotel and there's a television in there, I'll go straight to it and watch it as if it's some incredible new invention.
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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
