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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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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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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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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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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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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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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I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.
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I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.
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God never forces a person's will into surrender, and He never begs. He patiently waits until that person willingly yields to Him. True surrender is a matter of being 'united together [with Jesus] in the likeness of His death' (Romans 6:5) until nothing ever appeals to you that did not appeal to Him. And after you surrender--then what? Your entire life should be characterized by an eagerness to maintain unbroken fellowship and oneness with God.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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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."
