Sarah Dessen Quotes
Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
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The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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Let me guess,” Eli said, his voice that low, even timbre, as always. “Drinking from kegs also falls under outdoor activity.” I just looked at him, standing there in jeans and the same blue hoodie he’d had on the first time I met him. Maybe it was the embarrassment, which had been bad enough before I had an audience, but I was instantly annoyed. I said, “Are we outside?” He glanced round, as if needing to confirm this. “Nope.” “Then no.” I turned my attention back to the keg.
