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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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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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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I will always eat pizza! Always.
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Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?
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Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.
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I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
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Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.
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So I feel like success is opportunity plus preparation, so work begets work, and as long as you're prepared it's going to continue to come your way.
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The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.
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The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.
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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.
