Sarah Dessen Quotes
Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.
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Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.
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I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.
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The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
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Numb3rs' was a wonderful gift because I had not worked in six months. It was so fun to be on that set doing these crazy things.
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On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole.
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I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.
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Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.
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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
