Sarah Dessen Quotes
The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.
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I would love to go to film school.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.
