Sarah Dessen Quotes

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

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• But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Dreams
  • False
  • Tales

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Great
  • Business
  • Model

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Game
  • Team
  • Pressure

• I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • God
  • Future

• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Together
  • Player
  • Animal

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it's because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being 'arranged.'

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dreams
  • Visions
  • Suspicious

• I have got everything which a politician needs.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Needs
  • Everything
  • Got

• Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I really stay away from products that are not silicon-based, and I really stay away from parabens.

  

  Christine Flores

• Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Pain
  • Christian

• Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

  

  Sarah Dessen
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