Sarah Dessen Quotes
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
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We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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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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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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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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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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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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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.
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Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
