Sharon Creech Quotes
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I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
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I think sometimes when I go to make a move on something, people try to disqualify any talent that I have or any hard work that I've done.
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Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
