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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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
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I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
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People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
