Sarah Dessen Quotes
It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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Americans mostly now believe the climate is changing. They believe that humans are causing it, and they believe that it is a risk. But in surveys, Americans are not willing to pay higher energy prices to tackle the problem.
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We want to make the Cleveland Cavaliers a perennial champion and contender. We want people to be part of the franchise for long periods of time if they fit our culture, no matter who they are, whether it's LeBron or anybody that contributes.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.
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Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
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We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
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The crime is now logical and reasonable.
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Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.
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Maybe something is wrong with me, but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.
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When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.
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I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
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I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.
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I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
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I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.
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I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era.
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The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.
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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics.
