Sarah Dessen Quotes
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
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Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. But still, you resist it. Because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
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My mom always canned, and she taught us to take care of ourselves. She taught us everything from canning and sewing, and dad taught us everything we needed to know about farming.
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I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
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on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals
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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949 went directly to the private stockholders of the Federal Reserve banks.
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I like chocolate because it's chocolatey!
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Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.
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Repeat after me: I only invest my energy into people who invest in me. I only date people who intentionally want to get to know me. I do not chase people and try to convince them to like me.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
