Sarah Dessen Quotes
It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
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I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.
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'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about writing that didn't mention stuff like story structure, protagonists, and all those things that we know about only because they already exist in stories.
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A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.
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It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.
