Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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When I give I give myself.
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You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
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Being annoyed by carefully crafted internet personas was part of my carefully crafted internet persona.
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I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
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That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.
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In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.
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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.
