Sarah Dessen Quotes
Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
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My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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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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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.
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Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this?
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You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
