Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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On many different singles, I was able to marry my music with rappers who understood the natural bond between us.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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At high levels, all of us—normal weight and overweight alike—underestimate calorie levels with mathematical predictability.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
