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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All diseases run into one, old age.
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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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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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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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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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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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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.
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I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy.
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Who runs the world? Girls.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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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.
