Sarah Dessen Quotes
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
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There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.
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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
