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SARAH DESSEN Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to c...
SARAH PALIN Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.
SARAH CLARKE Surround yourself with people who support you. Find champions.
SARAH GAVRON Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We ...
SARAH PARCAK I give my grandfather, Dr Harold Young, a forestry Professor at the University of Maine, full credit...
SARAH PARCAK I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I w...
SARAH PARISH As smartphones have allowed us to have our computers, emails, social media feeds, and a full surveil...
SARAH LACY It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's...
SARAH MCLACHLAN Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, t...
SARAH BERNHARDT Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I think that our culture is doing something to women - let's say women in their late 30s and 40s...
SARAH DUNN I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.
SARAH HYLAND We're so immersed in ourselves at home, but when you're travelling, it's important to be...
SARAH ALEXANDER Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
SARAH BERNHARDT Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
SARAH BERNHARDT Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
SARAH MCLACHLAN As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone ...
SARAH MACLEAN Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood,...
SARAH MACLEAN In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even gr...
SARAH MACLEAN No doubt, much of the joy of a great romance is the moment when these stoic heroes crack open and re...
SARAH MACLEAN There is perhaps no more rewarding romance heroine than she who is not expected to find love. The ar...
SARAH MACLEAN In real life, I'd say that your commitment-phobe/narcissist/bad boy boyfriend is a lost cause, b...
SARAH MACLEAN No matter how troubled a character's history, romance novels tell us, love can be built upon it,...
SARAH MACLEAN By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of &...
SARAH MACLEAN For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be...
SARAH MACLEAN At the heart of every successful romance novel lies the evolution of its characters. Through love, h...
SARAH MACLEAN 'A Rogue by Any Other Name' is the first book in the 'Rules of Scoundrels' series, c...
SARAH MACLEAN I think we can all agree that Colin Firth falls into the George Clooney category of 'Men Who Age...
SARAH MACLEAN Critics seem to forget that every love story is different - that there is uniqueness in even the mos...
SARAH MACLEAN The best romance writers know there's nothing that builds conflict or makes a gentleman of a rog...
SARAH MACLEAN One of the most common criticisms of romance is that the genre is too prescribed: If every romance n...
SARAH MACLEAN