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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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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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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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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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 would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
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When you're an entertainer, it's hard not to compare yourself with the next person's success. But you have to trust your own journey and your strengths and believe in yourself. I think that's the best place to start.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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Remember: the force will be with you always...
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Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.
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You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
