Angie Thomas Quotes
I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Justice is revenge.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.
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I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that performing was something that I had always done as a kid, and I loved it... I said, 'This makes people happy when I do this, I feel good, I get to pretend and explore other areas and learn so much'.
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I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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I wrote 'The Hate U Give' as a short story while I was in college at a mostly white school in conservative Mississippi.
