Sarah Dessen Quotes
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
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Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity - broad, shared, built on a thriving middle class - that has always been the source of our progress at home. It’s also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
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but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.
