Sarah Dessen Quotes
Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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When the Stranger says: 'What is the meaning of this city ? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?' What will you answer? 'We all dwell together To make money from each other'? or 'This is a community'?
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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I've never really thought of myself as depressed so much as I am paralyzed by hope.
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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
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Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.
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I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.
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Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.
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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
