Sarah Dessen Quotes
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.
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There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.
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Deep at the dark bottom of the melting pot, where the private is public and the public private, where black is white and white black, where the immoral becomes moral and the moral is anything that makes one feel good (or that one has the power to sustain), the white man's relish is apt to be the black man's gall.
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If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.
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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
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At every wedding someone stays home.
