Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.
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When you write about faith, people will be upset with you no matter what. I've heard from readers who were disgusted with the depiction of monotheistic religion. I've also heard from readers who were upset because my portrayal of faith did not adhere to their specific doctrines. Fortunately, I have high risk tolerance.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
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But France's powerful armies, and a very large number of fortresses, ensure that the French Sovereign will possess the throne forever, and they do not have anything to fear now concerning internal wars or their neighbors invading France.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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I find if you are in an office, the crisis finds you. If you're not in the office, the crisis finds somebody else.
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Are those the only options? Nothing or forever?
