Sarah Dessen Quotes
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Japanese people are not known for expressing their feelings through singing and dancing, but I like to sing a lot. I don't just sing to myself in the shower. I sing everywhere.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It's not had the love it deserves over twenty years.
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The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.
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You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
