Sarah Dessen Quotes
After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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I am just as ordinary as anyone else, and I also have my problems, but I also am responsible for my own health. So I'll be on that exercise bike, I'll be out there walking and try to improve my health and diet as much as I'm expecting of other Tasmanians.
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Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
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No ally or adversary should ever doubt our strength and our resolve.
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All the rest of the world uses the word 'electricity.' They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
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Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.
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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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A mask of dirty old hairy leather, with two holes and a slit, it was too far gone for the old trick of please your honour and God reward you and pity upon me. It was disastrous.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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The holiness of the realIs always there, accessibleIn total immanence. The nodesOf transcendence coagulateIn you, the experiencer,And in the other, the lover.
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The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and honest and your constituents trust you, they'll help you get through the times when you fall short.
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After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.
