Sarah MacLean Quotes
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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Peer pressure plays a huge role in people's desire to get married.
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I've had a love affair with the desert ever since I can remember. No matter what I wrote - contemporary romance, spy thriller, high fantasy - it was going to have a desert in it.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
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Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.
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There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
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One thing alone my heart requires, - one gleam of living light amid the ashes and the gloom; that into my cell of humiliation the flood of Divine pity should break, and keep aglow the openings of eternal hope, and sustain the hidden strength of an everlasting love.
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Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.
