Sarah Dessen Quotes
But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
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You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
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It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
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But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
