Sarah Dessen Quotes
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.Sarah Dessen
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
G. Willow Wilson -
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
Uwe Boll -
The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
Nancy Pearcey -
If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
Ed Sheeran -
The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
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When I was filming 'Ouija,' there were some elements in that that really creeped me out.
Olivia Cooke -
I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
Imelda May -
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
C. L. R. James -
When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
Edmund Phelps -
'Pretty Little Liars' is very all-consuming of my time, but I guess it's a great problem to have... there have been other things that have come that were on the table and then were not.
Ian Harding -
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
Malcolm Forbes
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
Hanna Rosin -
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
Jacki Weaver -
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
Tana French -
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett -
I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
Rachel Kushner
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Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
Charles Handy -
As far as we are concerned, ... we have finalized all the planning process and we are ready to act. I think that is clear enough.
Javier Solana -
Water's about everything. And when the federal government controls water, it controls everything - that's the problem.
Paul Gosar -
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
Sarah Dessen