Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
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Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
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I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
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Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
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I might do a work to put me in contact with the god Mercury. If the information I get from that is valuable to me, and new enough, it doesn’t really matter whether the god Mercury is there at all, does it? There is a channel that I have called the god Mercury, some sort of information source I have named.
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I was a drummer and I played the guitar.
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I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
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How do you project a character if you don't have a sense of where she is from? I've always just gotten on a plane to go to the area to get a sense of what it is like, to smell it, feel the earth, hear people talk, go to the marketplaces.
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People feel really uncomfortable when there's silence.
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Wherever women succeed, businesses will succeed.
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Ever since I was really little, I started doing a - I don't know how to put this - mentally challenged person on my street. I meant no harm by it, but I remembered how this person talked, and I did it for my mom, and she was not into it. She said, 'You can't do that!' But my dad really laughed.
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Being a journalist, being exposed to the world, to social injustice, to intolerance, growing up here, under apartheid, benefitting from that, has all shaped who I am and what my passions are, and of course that's going to come through in my writing.
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When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.
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Believe me, when I saw 'Family Guy' do the bit on 'Africa,' I howled laughing.
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It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
