Sharon Creech Quotes
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kissSo many men stronger than meHave thrown their backs out trying to lift itBut me I'm not a gambleYou can count on me to splitThe love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist.
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Yes, I think I am a realist. Because I make what I see. It's only the problem of seeing it. If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space - then you can make it, and tout de suite you're a realist. The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you can be realistic about reproducing it.
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Political philosophy has lost its credibility in proportion as politics itself has become more philosophic than ever in a sense.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.
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A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.
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I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
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I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.
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What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.
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In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
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Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
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Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.
