Sarah Dessen Quotes
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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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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I've been lucky to ride 10 different horses at the Olympics. I'd like to think that of all of them, Big Ben - who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame - would still be competitive in the contemporary sport.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.
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There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
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The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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This little bathtub smells like ass.24.
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Before I even started to school, I sometimes would hide behind the radio, which would be sitting on a table, and pretend that I was on the air and try to fool people who came by to listen.
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On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.
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I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.
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Growing up with violence, with inescapable expertly choreographed brutality in every home builds not only a kind of desensitization for it, but it also creates a market for violent entertainment by people for whom even what they see on television is not enough, is not graphic enough, is not explicit enough, and some movie productions, some big productions really cash in on that market. What is peculiar about this is that as time goes on, a greater dosage is necessary to satisfy this need.
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Business is like sex. When it's good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.
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So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
