Sarah Dessen Quotes
Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.Sarah Dessen
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
Ed Westwick -
I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
Carli Lloyd -
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.
Laura Moser
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
Laura Esquivel -
I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
Malin Akerman -
One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice Bergen -
Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
Campbell Scott -
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
Rachel Cusk
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
Dan Quayle -
Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
Laila Robins -
The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.
Yahoo Serious -
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
Donna Leon -
Sometimes I would buy two of the same thing just to give my friends.
Hannah Bronfman -
I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
Louis Gossett, Jr.
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Understanding the nature of conflict leads to peace.
Lester B. Pearson -
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann -
Music used to be a more personal thing, and it defined who you were. Now it's like wallpaper.
Stephen Morris New Order -
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
James Sinegal -
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.
Fiorello LaGuardia -
Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.
Sarah Dessen