Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
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I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.
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As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.
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We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.
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When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.
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I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."
