Sharon Creech Quotes
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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My responsibility is to follow the law.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
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I consider Ric Flair to be one of the great comedic minds. But I never got to see him growing up because that was back when they still had territories.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
