Sarah Dessen Quotes
Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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When I first started out in the industry, I was 12 or whatever, and I wanted to be on something so bad, and I didn't know what I was going to be on. At the time, I was in school, and I was working on drama and theatrical stuff, so I never thought that I'd end up going to comedy.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.
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Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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I went right to the 'Guide to the Marvel Universe,' which has every Marvel character from A-Z, and fortunately, I had every issue. I found 'Deathlok,' read about him there.
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A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'
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Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it
