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.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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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.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
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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.
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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.
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My name is Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
