Walter Dean Myers Quotes
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
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I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.
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I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
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I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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I went to government for making these changes. I remember a number of guys among these important figures.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
