Sarah Dessen Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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We've been brought up to pick one thing in life and become really good at just that. But that's never what I wanted to be. I was always interested in many things at the same time, and I wanted to try all of them at the same time, too.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
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I love girl power.
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Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.
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I like that talented chefs are able to keep coming up with new ways of preparing food - it really is an art form.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.
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I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
