Sarah Dessen Quotes
I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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After you get what you want you don't want it.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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It's very good for you, riding. You know how every model is like, 'I do yoga.' Well, I find horses to have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move - particularly if you're doing dressage.
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I'm used to doing my jobs like a couple of photo shoots a month and a bit of presenting here and there, but the majority of my days are with the baby.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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I love going back to vinyl! I still have a great vinyl collection that I'm building up every couple of months. It's something I love to do.
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I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.
