Sarah Dessen Quotes
It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.
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When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.
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There's something healing about tears.
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My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
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The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.
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America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.
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Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.
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We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
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It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.
