Sarah Dessen Quotes
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I want to have a long career.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
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I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.
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You cannot sleep with the enemy and be successful...Every cord that binds you to failure, every cord that binds you to fear, you gotta cut it!
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And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
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Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
