Sharon Creech Quotes
You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
