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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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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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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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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If I've been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I've attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I've done a pretty good job of that over the years.
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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
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When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.
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I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.
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A person isn't a bird. You can't cage a person.
