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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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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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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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
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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.
