Sarah Dessen Quotes
But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
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My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
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Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.
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I was using computers for music in the '70s, '80s and '90s, and people didn't get it. They thought you should only use computers for your taxes and making pie charts.
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Songwriting was a gift that came to me when I needed it the most.
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In my time abroad, I learned to become a more complete player.
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I have this ability to really leave set and just cut off from it immediately.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't really get to just write songs for about five years.
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.
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But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.
