Sarah Dessen Quotes
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.Sarah Dessen
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson -
I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
Kate McKinnon -
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter -
Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.
Dana Spiotta -
There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
Barbara Park -
I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
Walter Kirn
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
Maika Monroe -
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
Natassia Malthe -
Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
Ram Charan -
In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
Zac Goldsmith -
I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.
Abraham Lincoln -
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
Dan Stevens -
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
Cal Thomas -
You ain't got the answers Sway!
Kanye West -
One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
Elias Canetti -
Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
Ambrose Bierce -
If the Americans attack Iran, the world will change. …They will not dare to make such a mistake'
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.
Jay Leno -
In India, nobody sues anybody.
Bikram Choudhury -
I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
Rabih Alameddine -
Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
Kate Millett -
It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantité negligeable.
Carl Jung -
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
Sarah Dessen