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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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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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'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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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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The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.
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It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
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An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.
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It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
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If I could be involved in the hunting and fishing industry, that would be amazing. That said, I studied biology in college and that led into me being really involved in anatomy and being a pre-med major.
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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.
