Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I think if you have a good night's sleep, you can take on the world.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
