Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don't have to decide whether you like it, and you don't really have to sit down and think about it much after you're done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.
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There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.
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With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.
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What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
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Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.
