Sarah Dessen Quotes
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Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
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You know, being Jewish is problematic. Most people really don't know what exactly it means to be a Jew. We belong to a community of suffering, and that's what binds us together. But we are also extremely diverse. That's something I wish people who hate Jews as a group because they think they're so different would understand. We're also completely different within our own group! Essentially, we're just part of a community that has suffered a great deal, and not just in the Holocaust.
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Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
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I think of love as an action. Finding something that's outside of yourself, to serve someone else's soul, helping to ignite someone else's spirit, to bring about ease of heart and joy, serenity in somebody else.
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I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
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The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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We hope to make some progress as they day goes on. Obviously we want to get up to full strength as soon as possible.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.
