Sarah Dessen Quotes
That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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I took the Oscars very seriously as a child.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
