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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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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If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.
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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.
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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.
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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One of the things I like most about Caravaggio is the sense of an unfolding emotional journey you get with his art. Early Caravaggios are sarky, confident, brazen. Late Caravaggio’s are dark, exhausted, tearful. A life put through the wringer.
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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.
