Sarah Dessen Quotes
If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.
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Ordo et connexio idearum idem est ac ordo et connexio rerum
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We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation. We have an obligation to clean up after ourselves, and not leave our children with a world we've shortsightedly messed up, shortchanged, and crippled.
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By the time I was 10 or 13, I'd learned the world capitals.
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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
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It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
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You never find peace in this realm, but it's okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time.
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I always wish I had a road map for how to navigate my life as a parent and a producer, but in truth, it's a lot of trial and error.
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I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.
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I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.
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If only you could really use a fail-proof system to know who was worth keeping and who needed to be thrown away. It would make it so much easier to move through the world, picking and choosing what connections to make, or whether to make any at all.
