Sarah Dessen Quotes
But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I love putting people to work of color.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
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Our whole philosophy is one of transparency.
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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.
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What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.
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Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
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I've found for the last couple of years that the things that I can become most deeply involved with are songs that reflect my real feelings about things and so that what I've been writing about.
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.
