Sarah Dessen Quotes
She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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People work hard.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
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I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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If I had caused any trouble worth mentioning, you would have read about it in 'Star' magazine, which is probably why I didn't cause any trouble worth mentioning.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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The idea of investing in entrepreneurs who are building things from scratch, where I can participate in their dream, was very, very exciting to me.
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The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.
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I have had just about all I can take of myself.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.
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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
