Sarah Dessen Quotes
Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I'm not graceful.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I'm a dork!
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
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Nothing makes you try harder than to be told that you are not good enough or that you simply do not have the skills.
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Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.
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I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump...
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Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.
