Sarah Dessen Quotes
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I would never try to invalidate someone's opinion of something or the feelings something makes them feel.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
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The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
