Sarah Dessen Quotes
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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If you are born into a family below the national median income, we provide you with an additional $500, and for every contribution made to a child's account below the national median income, we match it dollar for dollar - the federal government will.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
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I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
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The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.
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If a person has built a sound character, it makes but little difference what people say about him, because he will win in the end.
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
