Sarah Dessen Quotes
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
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I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
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A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
