Sarah Dessen Quotes
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I don't really love roller coasters because I feel like they're filled with germs and make me nauseous.
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I try to write in the mornings, as soon as I'm up and caffeinated, and to stay in the chair as long as I can be productive.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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The Internet now provides an immediate and very clear consensus of what it is that the audience is experiencing. It's something that you should never let lead you, and yet at the same time, you should never ignore it.
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Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
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Our fifth premise is that the resource allocation task of top management has received too much attention when compared to the task of resource leverage.
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Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.
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I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.
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In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats - maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats - but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.
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I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.
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It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
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I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!
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This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
