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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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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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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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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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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Governments must ensure that the power of blogs is cultivated and implemented in collaborative ways, with a view to preserve peace and human dignity.
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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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My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.
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During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
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It now appears we are past the worse of this virus, the peak so far, whilst death rates sadly remain high they are falling on a rolling basis, the number of hospital admissions are falling as well so we can start to look to the future.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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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.
