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 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 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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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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As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
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I try to be as optimistic as I can. I feel like that's the beautiful thing about art and music. It can take you places, and they can be a positive influence. A very soothing influence. Honestly, I feel like there's enough pain and terrible things that happen in life. That's beautiful thing in art, you can really idealize things.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.
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While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
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In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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All of our movies are lower budget, and that makes them more interesting, too: we have to come up with solutions other than throwing money at problems.
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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.
