Sarah Dessen Quotes
I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
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Anything that needs to be accessed is within me. Even if it's in a circumstance that seems outrageous, I can still just go back to the basic human experience and it's all there.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in.
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Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world.
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I mean, to me, freaking out is different. More of a running away, not telling anyone what's wrong, slowly simmering until you burst kind of thing.
