Sarah Dessen Quotes

My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

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• Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Cards

• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Advice

• I get homesick.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Get
  • Homesick

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Romantic

• That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • True
  • Nature
  • Death

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Music
  • Country
  • School

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Enough
  • Impossible
  • Most

• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Birthday

• I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Fear
  • Style
  • Said

• Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Confidence
  • You Can Do It

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Music reality shows are a good thing, especially for those seeking a career in music.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Good
  • Music
  • Career

• Growing up, I was always adamant that I would never do 'Home and Away' or 'Neighbours,' because as an actor you want to set your path as that serious kind of actor.

  

  Brenton Thwaites
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.

  

  Phil Keoghan
  • Done
  • Wish
  • Travel

• I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Long
  • Done

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• My experience is that sequels are rarely as good as the originals.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Experience
  • Originals
  • Sequels