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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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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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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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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...a point is reached where the self is so completely aligned with the still-point that it can no longer be moved, even in its first movements, from this center. It can no longer be tested by any force or trial, nor moved by the winds of change, and at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it.
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The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.
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I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself -Salma
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I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.
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I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
