Andrea Davis Pinkney Quotes
One of the challenges of wearing so many hats, is that I love each and every one of them!
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
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Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.
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One of the challenges of wearing so many hats, is that I love each and every one of them!
