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.Sarah Dessen
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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.
Barbara Boxer -
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.
Vanessa Carlton -
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
Dan Gilbert -
It's actually harder to write a fun song.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
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.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
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.
Beatrice Dalle
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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.
Tea Leoni -
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.
Laura Bailey -
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw -
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.
Pankaj Mishra -
I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
Natalie Dormer -
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!
Lady Gregory
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama -
I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
Rachel Corrie -
At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
Taraji P. Henson -
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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
Wendell Berry -
I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
Clarence Darrow
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Maybe the restaurants could change the rules to allow smoking only at night when it becomes more of a bar setting.
Andrew Brown -
If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon -
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.
Alice Oswald -
People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.
Ben Affleck -
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.
Sarah Dessen