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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'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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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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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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I let the whole 'Grease' experience be a springboard for me. I wanted to use the exposure I got from that very wisely to continue a successful career. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance.
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else. I’ve done it my whole career. And the head fake here is that they’re learning to program but they just think they’re making movies and video games.
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When I'm not working, I don't do lots of glamorous things.
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Environmentalists and clean energy champions should stop telling people that we are working for "sustainability," which nobody understands.
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Going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche.
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He's a serious mister Shake his hand and he'll twist your arm. With Monopoly money We'll be buying the funny farm. So I'll do flips, and get paid in chips From a diamond as big as the Ritz - Then I'm calling it quits.
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The guys knew we were facing a tough pitcher. I was really happy with the way they put the ball in play and made them make plays.
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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.
