Sarah Dessen Quotes
What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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I've never set up any golf course that would favor anybody. I try to make it exactly the opposite, which is what we did at Valhalla when we modernized it to accommodate the lengths players are hitting it today.
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I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
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I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.
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I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I did 'Nobody Walks' right after 'Dredd.' Well, actually, I got off the plane from Capetown where we shot 'Dredd' and tested for 'Being Flynn' that same day. Then I came out to L.A. to make this film right after that so it was all very back to back.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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I love going into rehearsals day after day for three, four weeks, trying stuff, coming back the next day, building on that. So many times I'd drive home from the studio after shooting and I'd be thinking about a certain moment, and I'd think, "Oh, I know what to do!"
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In my view, nobody is really effective in tackling those organized crime networks that are making connections from Africa to Asia to fund and facilitate the poaching of massive volumes of ivory, and then selling it on the Asian market. Very few people have tried globally to tackle that serious organized crime threat that is also linked to militia groups. That needs to change. You need to bring the full weight of government attention to dealing with that.
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Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
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What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
