Sarah Dessen Quotes
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.
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There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
