Sarah Dessen Quotes
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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Men are irrelevant.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
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I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
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I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.
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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.
