Sarah Dessen Quotes
Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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I started running, and I hated it. Of course, everyone hates running for the first mile. If you're running two miles or twenty miles, it always hurts. Now I live it. I look forward to it. It's really good. It clears my head.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
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Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.
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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie.
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When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.
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I have not met a Filipino actor who didn't dream of working on an 'FPJ' remake.
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XRP is solving a payments problem, and it's very efficient to do that.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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From the beginning, my songwriting was from writing in a journal; it was completely unfiltered. I don't know if I really meant to show everyone this side of me, but when I saw how people resonated to the things I was saying, some of the questions I was asking, I realized I was not alone.
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Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.
