Sasha Lane Quotes

I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.

Sasha Lane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 29, 1995

Topics

DreamsBeginningLieSorryThink

Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FamilyOceanNameDetailsAmerican

People don't read me and say, 'Oh, it's so clean and elegant.'

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleMeSayCleanElegantRead

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Jessica Brown Findlay

GreatPeopleInterestingFindPlay

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

John Green

ResponsibilityHappyMeStoryTrue

I was a bad boy as a child.

Andy Dick

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You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

John Kasich

CityOpinionYouGoKnowWhere

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

Amy Chua

ChildrenPeopleHusbandBelieveKey

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

Stephen Sondheim

PlayDeadEveryoneUpUsedEither

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

Mary H.K. Choi

ShortWantWriteLittleJust

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Joseph Joubert

AloneGreatGeniusLaborBegins

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

Domhnall Gleeson

CharacterPrettyPlayingWhereAwful

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Arne Jacobsen

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