Sarah Dessen Quotes

“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

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• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

  

  Walter Payton
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• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
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• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
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• Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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• For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
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  • Done
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• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
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• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
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• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Always
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• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
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• Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Country
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• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
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• When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Brain
  • Poetry
  • Spanish

• The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff

• There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

  

  Cory Gardner
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  • Question

• “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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