Sarah Dessen Quotes
How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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Everything I publish is for my readers.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.
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Desde que yo solo sé qué me sucede, no me sucede nada.
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little ones of France will sleep in peace, and the women go without fear.
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I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.
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I have everything and I have nothing. Sometimes I feel like the loneliest man on the planet. All this 'stuff' and no one to share it with. And then when women come along, I wonder if they like the stuff more than me.
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The glamorous side is SUVs, but frankly, the tractor side is where we are number one in the world.
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What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, ‘Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul’s address.
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How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
