Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
Daniel Baldwin -
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
Lance Gross -
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
Dakota Fanning -
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
Samuel Butler -
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
Viktor E. Frankl -
My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
J. K. Simmons -
For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
Oral Roberts -
I'm an iPod person.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Hannah Arendt -
I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
Kaley Cuoco -
The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.
Ed Royce -
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling -
My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
Usain Bolt -
Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
Samira Wiley
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
Adam Green -
A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.
Harry Callahan -
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
Carolyn Wheat -
But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Dan Simmons -
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
R. C. Sproul -
A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
Sharon Draper