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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I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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You're not a sucker. You're just nice. You give people the benefit of the doubt.
