Sarah Dessen Quotes

A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was - "Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just as Wes came view into the path. He was running, his pace quick and steady. He was in shorts, his shirt off, staring ahead as he passed. His back was tan and gleaming with sweat.

Sarah Dessen

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Work
  • Book
  • Fear

• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Gambling

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Better
  • Australia

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Death
  • Die

• I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Weird
  • Body

• What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Long
  • Language

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Single

• Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

  

  Hans Frank
  • God
  • Lonely

• It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

  

  Peter Bofinger
  • True
  • Growing
  • Question

• A film is a chain of very difficult decisions, and I think one of them is to choose an accurate cast.

  

  Javier Camara

• To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Obstacles

• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Emotion

• Viewers make online requests to their favorite video-making whisperers to do the things that trigger their head tingles. Everyone's needs are different. It's like an interactive choose-your-own-adventure.

  

  Andrea Seigel
  • Different
  • Adventure

• I do like the zombie movies quite a bit. I know there are purist zombie guys that don't like the running zombies, but I dig the infected thing. I think that's a scarier incorporation of an element into the genre.

  

  Mark Pellegrino
  • Running

• There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Men
  • Game
  • Running

• A thump thump thump noise that was so unfamiliar, and yet I couldn't quite place it. But I knew it. It was - "Mmm-hmmm," Monica murmured, just as Wes came view into the path. He was running, his pace quick and steady. He was in shorts, his shirt off, staring ahead as he passed. His back was tan and gleaming with sweat.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Running
  • Path
  • Faces