Nikki Grimes Quotes
Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.
Nikki Grimes
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
Olesya Rulin
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Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.
Saint Francis de Sales
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My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.
Karin Slaughter
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When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.
Nadine Gordimer
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C. S. Lewis
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From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.
Agatha Christie
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Yann Martel
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
Nancy Marchand
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I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?
Alicia Garza
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Ann Landers
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Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.
Nikki Grimes