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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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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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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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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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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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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It is better to deny God, than to defy God. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. To profess to be a lover of God and then to be dishonest to God, to the world and to himself, is unparalleled hypocrisy. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
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My wife and I were on our honeymoon in Turks and Caicos, in the middle of nowhere, and I'm sitting on this deserted beach, and I see one lone person walking along the shore. He walks right up to me and says, 'I love 'Laser Cats,' and then just walks away.
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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.
