Sarah Dessen Quotes

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Sarah Dessen

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• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

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• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  

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• I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.

  

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• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

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• If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.

  

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• My best friend is my husband.

  

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• I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.

  

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• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

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• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

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• I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

  

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• I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

  

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• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

  

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• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

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• Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

  

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• You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

  

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• The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

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• The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

  

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• I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.

  

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• To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

  

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• We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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• But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Care
  • Humans
  • Selfish