Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways.
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I'm very happy for others to engage in conjecture, but if I was ever conscious of what I'm thinking about when I'm writing, oh my God, I'd be totally lost.
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.