Sarah Dessen Quotes
But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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I'm not politically correct.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed.
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For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.
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Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
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The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
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But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
