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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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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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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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
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For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
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She's Beyoncé, and I'm Jay-Z's new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.
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Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.
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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
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Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
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Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
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My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.
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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.
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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.
