Sarah Dessen Quotes
Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.
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War challenges virtually every other institution of society - the justice and equity of its economy, the adequacy of its political systems, the energy of its productive plant, the bases, wisdom and purposes of its foreign policy.
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Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally approved of or even recognized at the time; they make fun of honored figures and piously held beliefs; and they view social pretenses with clear-eyed directness, remarking - as in Andersen's famous tale - that the emperor has no clothes.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
