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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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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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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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
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I wouldn't write about something that I haven't experienced myself.
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My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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The concept is to weave in some emotion.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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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.
