Sarah Dessen Quotes
There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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There's no way in the world that the United States does not want to spread democratic ideals, but the first thing we have to do is that which is the interest of our security.
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It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.
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I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course.
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There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
