Sarah Dessen Quotes
You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Every day there are homeowners in California who will either receive relief so they can stay in their home, or will be in the foreclosure process and potentially lose their home. And that always weighed heavily on my mind.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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'You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?' Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. 'Well, a little does no harm.'
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We know we’ve come to a crossroads when German childhood is being held up as an idealized model for Americans.
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That Shakespeare wanted Art.
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For the sword outwears its sheath,And the soul wears out the breast,And the heart must pause to breathe,And love itself have rest.
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Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.
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I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'
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Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.
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As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.
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You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.
