Sharon Draper (Sharon Mills Draper) Quotes

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Sharon Draper

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • You
  • Never
  • Desperate

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Envy

• It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Show

• Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

  

  Anand Giridharadas

• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Rebel

• I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.

  

  Jens Lekman

• The man who has done his best has done everything.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Done

• If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

  

  Neill Blomkamp

• My favourite way of getting ready for a red carpet event is to turn the hair and makeup time into a bit of a pre-party. I use the same artists all of the time, so we know each other so well - so it's a 'hanging with friends' session. Music, lots of laughing, and food - because you must eat before the event.

  

  Behati Prinsloo
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

  

  Alice Duer Miller
  • Good
  • Important
  • Truth

• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • Truth

• Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.

  

  David Mamet
  • Different
  • Art

• I don't like to be afraid. I'm afraid every day, all the time.

  

  Melissa Auf der Maur
  • Time

• I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Sticker
  • Cadillac
  • Dead Head

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • Great
  • School
  • Friends

• Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

  

  Sharon Draper
  • Teacher
  • Library
  • Writer