Sarah Dessen Quotes
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
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Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
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How beautiful that after 2,000 years, no one can outdo "God is love." It's the most perfectly concise, hopeful phrase in history.
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I am happy with my form; I just need to score a couple of goals. I want the ball. I want to create something.
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
