Sarah Dessen Quotes
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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I'm in this wave with Maddie & Tae and RaeLynn and Mickey Guyton and Cam. We're all kind of finding our niches and becoming successful. I think that it's just been really fun to be with them and do this all together.
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It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
