Sarah Dessen Quotes
I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
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I had no expectations of white people at all.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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Programmers can be lazy.
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A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.
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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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I am a very bad cook.
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When I sing, it's different from when I speak in a very interesting way. I think that, when you're singing, a message is carried in a different way. I don't know if that emotion needs a melody.
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I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.
