Sarah Dessen Quotes
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.
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Most of my interviews have been with millennials, and it's been a fascinating window into my kids' world. It's been so wonderful to see a generation that seems so savvy in so many ways - and so much cooler than we were.
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I'll decide to do a movie and then go oh, like "Twilight" fans are probably going to react to this or whatever. But that's always an afterthought. Like I don't plan things out based on other people's opinions of how like I think they're going to receive them. I do it like for the experience.
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If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
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We abstained from having sex until we got married.
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Then as in so many periods, notoriety was more desirable for a politician than obscurity.
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Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
