Sarah Dessen Quotes
I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
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'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.
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Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
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I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.
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Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.
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I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.
