Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I love recording music.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.
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I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
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Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.
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And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.
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I used to say that I was making "country music," because it was the quickest, easiest answer. I'm obviously heavily influenced by country music. There was a three-year stint in my life where I listened to nothing else, so, I learned it very well.
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Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
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Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.
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Ginny Weasley, who sat next to Colin Creevey in Charms, was distraught, but Harry felt that Fred and George were going the wrong way about cheering her up. They were taking turns covering themselves with fur or boils and jumping out at her from behind statues.
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Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.
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What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.
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We need to have great wealth and we need to have the critics of great wealth.
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I am self-taught. In other words, God is my teacher.
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You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
