Sarah Dessen Quotes
I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
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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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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.
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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
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There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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I don't really see myself as an accomplished person. I just worked hard and got opportunities to do what I love. I've been blessed.
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The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.
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Some participants are trying to put formulas unacceptable to Russia, including on Chechnya, into the declaration
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.
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The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
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I'm attracted to the past.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
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I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.
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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.
