Sarah Quotes

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.

Thinking through how you find that intersection between individual, compelling human narratives and structural, systemic injustices - that's the place that's most interesting to me as a reporter.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

I wanted to think about ways to get an American readership concerned with what is happening in Mexico, but also to reframe it as a problem Americans share.

People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.

I try to come to my reporting as a real, whole person, not an automaton.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way, the truth will out.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

In fact, a case could be made that worrying about a problem actually prevents you from resolving it, because it deceives your mind into thinking that you're doing something when really you're not.

No veep character is as absurd as Donald Trump.

I'm a terrible person for carrying things around. I carry everything around with me, it's like my home.

Strikes always leave a bad taste with everyone.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it.

I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

After two years of doing one show, you do get attached to everyone.

Doctor Who is like any long-running series in that the cast tend to look to the star to set the general tone. Rehearsals and filming could be a lot of fun.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

What you don't see backstage is what really controls the show.

Many outsiders see the art world as elitist and it is, except it is also oddly down-to-earth and embracing of oddballs who don't fit in well anywhere else.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.

If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.

My audience is going to die before I do.

We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

It's a curious, wanting thing.

life is crap but, every day is an experience

..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.

The bad blood rose in me, just like wine.

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders – a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart.

Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

.. now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.

I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.

All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on.

Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

Let's as this House send a very clear message to British Muslims that we value you, we value your contribution, and we will take this petition very seriously.