Sarah Dessen Quotes
There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I completely get the drag thing.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
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There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?
