Sarah Dessen Quotes
I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.
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With wok cooking, you chop things up into little pieces for maximum surface area, so they can cook in minutes, if not seconds. Sauteing is energy efficient; baking is not.
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
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I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.
