Sarah Dessen Quotes
From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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They hate whom they fear.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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To give a good interview, I often found it's a bit like acting, except it's yourself, so you have to be yourself.
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Be true to what you said on paper.
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I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I would like my kids to go to college and be exposed to the real world and to make their own decisions and find their own path instead of sending them somewhere where they would be creatively conditioned for one life path or another.
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From what I could see, the hardwood was just fine. Then again, I'd just see a windmill and an open sky, too, never feeling the need to conquer either. You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.
