Sarah Dessen Quotes
But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.
