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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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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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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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 used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
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As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.
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I'm just trying to go out there and play the game the right way and lead by example.
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My worth to God in public is what I am in private.
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
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Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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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.
