Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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 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 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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Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
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I've not been paid millions of pounds for any fights. I've not made any money out of boxing.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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It's very hard to remain a student in life.
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I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
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Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
