Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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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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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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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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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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Bright lights, they tend to burn out fast. So I shine bright, but I'm scared that it won't last.
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It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.
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We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.
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Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
