Sarah Dessen Quotes

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

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• I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Change

• I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Myself

• My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mom

• I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Long
  • Art
  • Me

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Play

• In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Art
  • Always
  • Appreciation

• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Small
  • Always
  • Snake

• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Good
  • Why
  • Door

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Prime Minister

• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Good
  • Career
  • Plan

• God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Help
  • Regret
  • Championship

• Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Game
  • Best

• Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

  

  Ice T
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Tough

• If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Life
  • Care
  • Smart

• I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?

  

  Zach Braff
  • Rock
  • Boat

• I'm a biologist, so... Which I think should be mandatory. Biology should be mandatory. Mathematics? They say we don't know enough about math and science. Well we don't know enough about science and particularly biology, which is such a huge field.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Math

• There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is up to me to design and translate that idea onto skin. I really appreciate when customers have enough trust in what I can do.

  

  William Webb
  • Enough
  • Appreciate
  • Customers

• A politician... one that would circumvent God.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • God
  • Politics
  • Politician

• You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Enough
  • Sure
  • Clearly