Sarah Dessen Quotes

I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

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• I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Angel
  • Drink

• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Church
  • Years
  • Child

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Strong
  • Ideas
  • Ready

• People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Work
  • Think
  • Truck

• No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Change

• There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Earth

• It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Story
  • Media

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thought

• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Parents
  • Desire

• I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Want
  • Ourselves

• If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • You
  • Someone
  • Sweetness

• I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Career
  • Chance

• I'm short and I have a big appetite. I can't do nothing just a little. It's the same with anything I do. It's very hard for me to love a little, have sex a little, to eat a little. I like to do everything, and I like to do it all the way that I want to do it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Littles
  • Bigs
  • Appetite

• But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

  

  Miranda July
  • Like
  • Grow
  • Where

• I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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