Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
Kate McKinnon
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
Vidal Sassoon
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I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.
Pat Summitt
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
Felicity Kendal
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
D. B. Weiss
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
Patricia McBride
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
Oleg Cassini
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
Marat Safin
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
Harold Feinstein
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins
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Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
Kate Atkinson
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In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book was going to be marketed to young readers. And the morals don't really suit the stories at all, which makes them super weird - part of why I love the tradition so much. I do play with this, though I am more concerned with ethics than morals.
Kate Bernheimer
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero
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You just had to know where to look.
Sarah Dessen
