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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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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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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My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
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I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
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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.
