Sarah Dessen Quotes

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

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• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • First
  • Stress

• I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Down

• I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Young

• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Emotions
  • Advantage
  • Lead

• I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Star

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Character
  • Driving

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Remember
  • Today

• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Thing

• A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Small

• When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Say
  • Walk

• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Fall
  • Poetry
  • Epic

• I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Wife

• I believe I've accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Trying

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

  

  Mason Cooley

• Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Art
  • Free
  • Finding

• We go to Montana every year - that's where my husband is from - Flathead Lake, Montana, which is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to in my life. It's amazing that his entire family lives there. There's waterskiing, jet skiing, and kayaking, and it's just really fun.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Life
  • Family
  • Fun

• When we look out into space, we're looking back in time; the light from a galaxy a billion light-years away, for instance, will take a billion years to reach us. It's an amazing thing. The history is there for us to see. It's not mushed up like the geologic record of Earth. You can just see it exactly as it was.

  

  Margaret Geller
  • Up
  • Time
  • History

• Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

  

  Cynthia Leitich Smith
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Art

• It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Amazing
  • Planned
  • Exactly