Andrea Davis Pinkney Quotes
The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
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If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability.
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I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
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My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
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Many women are discovering that the motherhood instinct implies a responsibility to be certain children have dads - everyday, not far away; and some are aware that economic independence requires not holding on to her child as if it were her job.
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Stressing the God-centered life can lead to an otherworldly withdrawal from everyday earthly life.
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Everyday people are not very good designers.
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The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.
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I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
