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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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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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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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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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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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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I'm not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones.
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I voted for McCain. But I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organized, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
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It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.
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I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.
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I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.