Sarah Dessen Quotes
The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.
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My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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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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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.
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I've always been a dreamer.
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
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But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.
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The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.
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The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, putting my dad's iPod on the speaker dock, and a Bob Dylan song came on, the notes familiar. I went into the living room, hitting the switch there, then down the hallway to my room, where I did the same. It was amazing what a little noise and brightness could do to a house and a life, how much the smallest bit of each could change everything. After all these years of just passing through, I was beginning to finally feel at home.
