Sarah Dessen Quotes
I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
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New Yorkers - the people are so honest. If you're sucking on stage, they'll let you know.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
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My real name is Joe Kennedy, but if you live in Massachusetts, you can't sign 'Joe Kennedy.' So, back in 1957, I stuck the X on my name to be different from those people in Hyannis Port.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
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There is nothing that art cannot express.
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Hatred will never be erased! The only thing you can do... is erase the ones you hate. - Hakuryuu
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There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.
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I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.
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Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.
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I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.
