Angie Thomas Quotes
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts, they tend to be intelligent, arty types. For her, it's a kudos thing. The man just wants a good-looking girl because he imagines that when his friends see him, they'll all think, 'Gosh I wish I was him.'
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.
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Literature plays a huge role in examining difficult real-life issues.
