Sarah Dessen Quotes
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.
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Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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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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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?
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I took the two most expensive aspirins in history.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
