Walter Dean Myers Quotes
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I don't like to direct myself.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I briefly flirted with some of the new age offerings available in the early '90s and found strength in Buddhism, but ultimately I was looking for something that was not tied to tradition.
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The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them; and starves himself in the midst of plenty, and most unnaturally cheats and robs himself of that which is his own; and makes a hard shift, to be as poor and miserable with a great estate, as any man can be without it.
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The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
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I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
