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.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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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.
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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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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.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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I was taught to confront things you can't avoid. Death is one of those things. To live in a society where you're trying not to look at it is stupid because looking at death throws us back into life with more vigour and energy. The fact that flowers don't last for ever makes them beautiful.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.
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The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.
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I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.
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The man who has done his best has done everything.
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“We’re lost in the woods,” Patricia said with a shiver. “I’m probably going to be eaten by a bear.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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In my real movie-going days, which were the thirties, you didn't stand in line. You strolled down the street and sallied into the theater at any hour of the day or night.
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I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.
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American women today want too much liberty; that's why they're unhappy. Because when an American man meets a woman, he treats her like a pal instead of a woman.
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
