Sarah Dessen Quotes

When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

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• I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I love working with the Farrelly brothers. I'm a big fan and feel very lucky to have gotten to work with them a few times. One thing that I learned while working with them is that you have to keep your cell phone off when filming scenes, or you owe them a lot of money!

  

  Carly Craig
  • Work
  • Money
  • Feel

• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Kid
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lucky

• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Gift

• I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Lucky
  • Admit

• My whole career - I have been really lucky.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Career
  • Really
  • Lucky

• For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Lucky

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Lucky

• I feel very lucky.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Feel
  • Lucky
  • I Feel

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Parent
  • Lucky
  • Alive

• When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Lucky
  • Anything

• Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • You
  • Lucky
  • Month

• I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lucky

• I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Single
  • Books
  • Sense

• I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Press
  • Onstage

• If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Work
  • Growing
  • Makeup

• So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Mind
  • Helping
  • Teach

• When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Lucky
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