Sarah Dessen Quotes
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When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Words cut through my skin, tears roll down my chin
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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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Not that I took it as a fiasco at the time, but no one saw 'Almost Famous' in the theaters,
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Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
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I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.
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It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
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Every soldier is an enemy.
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She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.
