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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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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.
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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.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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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.
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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.
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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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.
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Sometimes I would buy two of the same thing just to give my friends.
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I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.
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Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
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I'm vomiting days before I start shooting a new movie.
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Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
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I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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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.
