Sarah Dessen Quotes
That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I've never been on a date.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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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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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
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That first love. And the first one who breaks your heart. For me, they just happen to be the same person.
