Sarah Dessen Quotes
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing is so original.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
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Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.
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You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.
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Being able to communicate with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that you understand them.
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged as mistress of herself. For her cradle to her grave she is another's. We do indeed need and demand the other rights of which I have spoken, but let us first obtain OURSELVES.
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I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.
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Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.
