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 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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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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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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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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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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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.
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Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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In the end, I still have the same hope as my father - that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the last word.
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I'm used to playing characters who have a lot to say but don't know how to say it.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
