Sarah Dessen Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I don't care about image and all that nonsense. I'm in sweat pants every day. I don't play the game at all.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.
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I think the most important thing for a listener is to realize that he, too, should not listen to music in a passive way; that if you sit in a concert hall and expect to be moved or taken off your seat by the music, it will not happen.
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Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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I know women at work who don't talk about having a baby because they don't want to upset the apple cart, but unless people know what the problems are, why should they engage with it?
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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
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Its been a long night" "aren't they all?
