Sarah Dessen Quotes
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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There's never a dull moment on a David O. Russell set. But that's the beauty of it. That's the magic.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
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Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.
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I can count on one hand how many people I trust.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.
