Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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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 would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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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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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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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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With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.
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The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.
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If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.
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I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.
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Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
