Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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Bulking up for the Twilight films was one of the hardest things I've done... I had to give myself a lot of pep talks, as there was just so much gym time.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
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I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
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I love my gay male friends, but when I was a little girl, I always used to wish that I would be constantly surrounded by gorgeous guys, and I am, and I should have been more specific.
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The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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Says the girl with no thyme.
