Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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If there's ever any point in my life where I could meet Jennifer Aniston, I think that'd be pretty incredible!
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.
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Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
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I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up.
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
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Living New York, everyone has a million hustles, so I was doing party promoting, working the doors at parties, doing that whole nightlife thing.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.
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Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.
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I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.
