Angie Thomas Quotes
My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
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For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.
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What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi.
