Sarah Dessen Quotes
It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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I'm always home, doing nothing, making beats, and watching movies.
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Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
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It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
