Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
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You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
