Sarah Dessen Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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"Do you think he’s going to hurt Sam?” Bess asked. “I don’t know. But it sounds like that’s on the table."
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On Christmas morning, we always make breakfast, and everyone eats before we open any presents. I make muffins and homemade applesauce, which I don't think anyone likes as much as I do... I just love the way it makes the house smell!
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.
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You just had to know where to look.
