Sarah Dessen Quotes
I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I want to make a name for myself.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Excellence always sells.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
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Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
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I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
