Angie Thomas Quotes
I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
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I barely watch TV apart from the news. Most of it is rubbish. There's all this reality nonsense and dross. I think there's a market for a well-produced, well-written melodrama like 'Dallas.' It's pure entertainment.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
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People say they like my fashion-haul videos because it's like you've been shopping with your friends, and you look back over what you have bought.
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For me, it's really like, okay, if you go far with the unexpected materials and unexpected proportions or volumes, then keep the colors quite simple and straightforward for men.
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If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
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When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
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I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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I often say that I want to write like Tupac rapped. I could listen to his album, and within a few minutes, I could go from thinking deeply to laughing to crying to partying.
