Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
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I love Lady Gaga. She's not afraid to take risks and be herself.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.
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I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
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I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
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You've got to just go do what you do - you can't really worry about who was attached to the movie before.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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When I was younger, I liked writing stories and watching younger actors on TV.
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It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.
