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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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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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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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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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.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
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I've always wanted to do action and action movies. I grew up on that.
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But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.
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A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
