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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CAA has a great history of representing fantastic talent, many of whom are my heroes in film and television.
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Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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Soccer is like punk rock: The product is not necessarily terrible. The problem is the fan base.
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A lot of people have asked me to do answer phone messages for them.
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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.
