Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes

I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'

Wendelin Van Draanen

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

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• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

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• A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.

  

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• Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.

  

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• Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

  

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• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

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• In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

  

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• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

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• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
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• When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

  

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• Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

  

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• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

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• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

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• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
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• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
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• I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

  

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• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

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• When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.

  

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• For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!

  

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

  

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• For everyone out there listening, thank you and Merry Christmas.

  

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• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  

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• As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture.

  

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• I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People