Sarah Dessen Quotes
You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
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I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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I couldn't know about my culture, my history, without learning the language, so I started learning Arabic - reading, writing. I used to speak Arabic before that, but Tunisian Arabic dialect. Step by step, I discovered calligraphy. I painted before and I just brought the calligraphy into my artwork. That's how everything started. The funny thing is the fact that going back to my roots made me feel French.
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You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.
