Sarah Quotes

Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression.

I don't lie to you," Alan said. "I lie WITH you." Sin stopped looking up at him from under her eyelashes and burst out laughing. Alan went red. "So I've just realized how that come out. Uh.

I don't have deal breakers," Alan said. "I look on tempests, and am never shaken.

Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it.

A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.

I don't read a word that's written about me. I don't read my own interviews. I don't read reviews. I think it would drive me insane.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

I am not here to entertain straight people.

I know it sounds weird, but my definition of 'sexy' has changed as I've gotten older. And being smart and informed makes me feel sexier than any outfit.

I'm a tomboy myself and have always been incredibly athletic.

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.

I was captain of the volleyball team and the basketball team, and I ran track.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

I love guns. I love shooting guns.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

When I finish a workout, I feel pretty sexy. Even though I'm sweaty and I don't smell like a rose, I feel strong. It does a lot for me mentally and physically.

My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.

I'm used to a lot of love scenes. I'm used to something that requires me to kick up my heels and wink-wink, flirt-flirt with a twirl of my skirt.

I'm not one to be messed with. I can be bad when it needs to happen.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.

I hate girls who complain, 'Oh, guys are looking at me!' But I love it when guys check me out. It just feels great.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

I don't really like 'acting' - I like things to feel as natural as possible.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

When you are in school, your talents are without number, and your promise is boundless...But at a certain point, you begin to feel your talents dropping away, like feathers from a molting bird.

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance.

I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.

You're supposed to have friends you can tell anything to.

When you’re a bed wetter there’s only one group of people you can feel better than, bed shitters, and unfortunately they’re hard to come by.