Sarah Dessen Quotes
If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
