Sarah Dessen Quotes
People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.
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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little stories about nothing in particular. I recall one about someone with an illness. But my dedication wasn't really healthy, and it reached the point where I wasn't sleeping. My mum would tell me, 'You need to go outside to get some fresh air.'
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
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The fun of sitting around Pangong Lake with 40 guys around a fireplace, having a glass of wine... staying in one camp together... that's an experience. Waking up at 5 in the morning, watching the sun come up. You don't do these things in Bombay.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
