Sarah Dessen Quotes
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
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For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.
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Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.
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The way that you parent, you ease into every stage.
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I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day while they were waiting for 'Archie' to read for a boy... I've had drivers come to pick me up in England looking for a blond, blue-eyed Scottish boy.
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One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue.
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I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
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I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you'd ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It's not like I don't know that.
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Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
