Sarah Dessen Quotes

It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

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• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  

  Mae West
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • Curves

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Amazing
  • Ability
  • Turn

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Myself

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Always
  • Stay
  • Hotel

• If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Action
  • Opinion
  • Military

• I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

  

  Sam Houston
  • World
  • Politics
  • Making

• Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Men
  • Star
  • Tough

• I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Look

• And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Way
  • Fear
  • Challenge

• Give me, Lord, neither poverty nor riches.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Giving
  • Poverty
  • Poor

• It was a great win for us. I can't say anything less about Cole. Playing well in front of Quinn, Canada's Olympic team coach was not something I was focusing on, but wanted to make a difference.

  

  Eric Staal
  • Team
  • Win
  • Difference

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Matter

• Focus on what you know you can do. Know what you're capable of on any given day, and what you can count on. Do the simple things well, and then use the confidence to build up the rest of your game. Learn to differentiate between what is truly important and what can be dealt with at another time.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Important
  • Simple
  • Focus

• It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Matter