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.
Gail Devers -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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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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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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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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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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The peasantry, having lifted itself up out of its medieval status, cannot politically generate it's own rage. - Speech in Paris, 1934
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Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.
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There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
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In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
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Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.
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Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don't. That's fine.
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I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
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Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
