Sarah Dessen Quotes

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

Sarah Dessen

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• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Real
  • Game
  • Running

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Information

• Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Life
  • Real
  • Happy

• Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Work
  • Real
  • Business

• The good thing is that I'm always honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Always
  • Honest

• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

• I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Loved

• I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Real
  • Guy

• The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Real
  • America

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• Whenever I come to Delhi, I forget about eating right and watching my weight.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Forget
  • Eating
  • Watching

• I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• In the real world, children love me.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Honest
  • Wise Man
  • Straight

• When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • School
  • Films

• I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

  

  David Heyman
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Unique

• If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.

  

  Leonard Maltin
  • People

• We will not take this nation by storm or by stealth or by surprise. We will win it by work.

  

  Joe Clark
  • Work
  • Storm

• All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Real
  • Forget
  • Honest