Sarah Dessen Quotes
You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
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I'm a comedian, not a politician.
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'Secrets Of The Millionaire Mind' was born out of my own journey of self-discovery within both my personal and professional life.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.
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In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.
