Sarah Dessen Quotes

I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

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• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Want
  • Getting Older

• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Time
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  

  Ovid
  • Why
  • Nothing
  • Details

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
  • Find
  • Curious

• According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Father
  • Law
  • Divided

• I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Feel
  • Show
  • Gets

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Everyone

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

  

  Jim Henson
  • World
  • Hope

• I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Career

• Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • True
  • Single

• I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Found