Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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Excellence always sells.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
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There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
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It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.
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I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.
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I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.
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It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
