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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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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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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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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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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People always think the coach is the strongest person at a club, the boss, but in truth, he's the weakest link. We're there, vulnerable, undermined by those who don't play, by the media, by the fans. They all have the same objective: to undermine the manager.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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A lot of my die-hard fans think I have a lot of hits, but I don't.
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Sometimes, I have lost out on a gig because I was not high enough profile.
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Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
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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.
