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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My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.
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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
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I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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Despite our differences, we did have a history. No one understood where I was coming from the way he did.
