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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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
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There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
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There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
