Sarah Dessen Quotes

Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

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• I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Wall

• The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Rock
  • Star

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Up
  • Country
  • Song

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Would
  • Definitely
  • Ralph

• I'm learning every day.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Day
  • Learning
  • Everyday

• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Whole
  • Rather
  • Ethical

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• I thought, If I'm so afraid of a bikini, there's something wrong. And so I had to get back into one!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thought
  • Wrong
  • Back

• The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Red
  • Chinese
  • Judging

• During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Game
  • Rules
  • Artists

• I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Years

• Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Peace

• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to theLight - The marrow in the boneWe dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, thesap in the treeWere springs of Deity.

  

  Edith Sitwell

• I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • World
  • Long
  • Children

• Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • World
  • Different
  • May

• The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Good
  • School
  • Money

• The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Important
  • Moving

• And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Time
  • Wanted
  • East

• I've been working with Disney all these years doing voice work, and now I'm signed with Disney Fine Arts, doing 'Beauty and the Beast' oil paintings. So it's been an ongoing wonderful job.

  

  Paige O'Hara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Beauty

• Money: power at its most liquid.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Money
  • Power

• Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Daughter
  • Phone Calls