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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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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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.
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I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.
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The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.
