Sarah Dessen Quotes
There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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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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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!
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My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
