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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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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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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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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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 like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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She couldn't think of anyone else who remotely resembled him. He was complicated, almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination. On the surface he was a country boy, home from war, and he probably saw himself in those terms. Yet there was so much more to him. Perhaps it was the poetry that made him different, or perhaps it was the values his father had instilled in him, growing up. Either way, he seemed to savor life more fully than others appeared to, and that was what had first attracted her to him.
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The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.
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To me, they are equally important, as they represent a certain period in my life and times. With that in mind, it really is impossible to pick favorites.
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Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.
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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.
