Sarah Dessen Quotes
Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
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You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I looked it at like this way. To get folks to like you, as a screen player I mean, I figured you had to sort of be their ideal. I don't mean a handsome knight riding a white horse, but a fella who answered the description of a right guy.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it's a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past - no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
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I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
