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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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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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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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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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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We grow small trying to be great.
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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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I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
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No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
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I was very adept at acquiring languages.
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Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
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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.
