Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies.
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All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
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Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love - the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
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The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
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We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
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Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
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I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.
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Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
