Sarah Quotes

Not really a party until someone brings the surprise zombies.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the thread grows slack, will you feel it?

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it's my job to find it.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons … which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say?

I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.

If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.

I find day after day of sunshine boring.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.

I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.

I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

My son doesn't know how flawed I am, how flawed we are. He still likes us so much, and that's so incredible to be around.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor.

I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there really is no external.

I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else

We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn't that ironic?

No matter that I have inhibitions enough to fill all my pockets; I keep trying , hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.

We petitioned to get access to film [Suffragette] at the Houses of Parliament and we whooped with joy when we were allowed in, as this is the first ever commercial film to shoot there.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

We have such a good time working together. It makes such a difference going to work every day for 14 hours and being able to hang out and have a good time.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

And it's hard at the end of the day

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.

No one deserves to be whipped like an animal.

Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.

True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!

There's always something about home that's special.

We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.