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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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'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.
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“It is important to distinguish 'pure chance' from 'chance' or 'accident.' Things may happen by chance or accident in a purely deterministic universe...Now there is perhaps a sense of 'could not have done otherwise' in which whether or not a person could or could not have done otherwise depends on whether or not the universe is deterministic.”
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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
