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.
Dan Brown
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Caitlin Moran
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
Laura Vandervoort
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
Octavia Spencer
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
Dan Castellaneta
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
E. L. James
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
Xavier Dolan
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My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
Dan Brown
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
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So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
Jesus Christ
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My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch.
Jill Scott
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People always lean toward who's the best guitar player, who's the best singer? I don't see it that way. They're all the best, you know? They've all gotten your attention, you've admired them, you've tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of 'em.
Gregg Allman
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama
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When we first started the company, I didn't have any thoughts of franchising. We just had company-owned stores.
Fred DeLuca
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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad.
Sarah Dessen
