Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I've been the best player on every team that I played on, so if I can't be the poster child of your team, then what else is it? It's got to be a black-white issue. Every white player I know who's the best player on their team is the poster child of that team.
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Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
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I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
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Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
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There was no one around me who didn't work hard.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.
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Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
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Il faut être absolument moderne.
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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.
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Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.
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I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.
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I'm done with 'Biggest Loser.'
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
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Who can wait in stillness while the mud settles?
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Conciseness is underrated
