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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Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Love for the Lord is not an ethereal, intellectual, dreamlike thing; it is the intensest, most vital, most passionate love of which the human heart is capable.
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Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
