Sarah Dessen Quotes

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Me
  • Powerful
  • Hold

• I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Home
  • Just
  • Cook

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
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• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movies
  • Hard
  • Fact

• When you have Candidate A saying the sky is blue, and Candidate B saying it's a cloudy day, I look outside and I see, well, it's a cloudy day. I should be able to tell my viewers, 'Candidate A is wrong, Candidate B is right,' and not have to say, 'Well, you decide.' Then it would be like I'm an idiot.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Day
  • Sky
  • Blue

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • American
  • Kind

• My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Day
  • End

• For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Football
  • Player

• I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Leaving
  • Being
  • Big

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• When you're on top, you're on top.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
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• When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • End

• Coffee is my water now.

  

  Becky G
  • Water
  • Coffee
  • Now

• A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Support
  • Looks
  • Rise

• I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • People
  • Fun
  • Cool

• When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

  

  John Taylor Gatto
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

  

  Kenneth Koch
  • World
  • Good
  • Live

• It is a really interesting to hear yourself on the radio. I've gotten to hear myself in different capacities. I've heard myself on Sirius XM on the bluegrass channels, and on WSM and other places.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • School
  • Proud
  • Daughter