Erin Gruwell Quotes
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.
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It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.
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History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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I'm more in the Stones camp than the Beatles camp.
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About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
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After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
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I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.
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Most importantly, I realize the value of the other people - the extended family - the other people within my community, my cultures: my teachers and the other people I call Auntie, Uncle, Godfather, Godbrother, whatever. These are people who pulled you in and made you part of their lives and their homes.
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I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
