Sarah Dessen Quotes
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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I will always eat pizza! Always.
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The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.
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Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.
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You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.
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All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.
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You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and collected perfect smart thing going on. You're the boy all the girls want to rebel with. You, are the unattainable girl in homeroom who never gives a guy the time of day.
