Sarah Dessen Quotes
It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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We need less perfect but more free films.
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It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.
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Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense.
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Sometimes we need to be reminded that there are things we are facing that only God can save us from.
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It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.
