Andrea Davis Pinkney Quotes
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
Quotes to Explore
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
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I don't know if you can catch my vibe, but I'm a pretty laid-back guy.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.
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KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I've been blessed. I've had a great life and am continuing to have one.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.
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I'm a worrier by nature.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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Things need shaking up politically, culturally.
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Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten.
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
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As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
