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Andrew Clements Quotes

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

Andrew Clements

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 29, 1949

Topics

Famous Celebrity Made Much

I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.

Gay Irish Write Buy Being Ireland

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

Technology Window Think You Enemies

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

Good Business Food Good Food Fashion

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

Life Community Reflection School

It's just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and you rock, and you can conquer the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are, and your flaws are nothing, and you're awesome.

Beautiful World Conquer You Flaws

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Thought Back First Far Making About

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

Christian Louboutin

Today I Am You Create Christmas

The world is pretty messed up.

World Messed Up Up Pretty Messed

Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.

Sports Growing Up Growing Never Mean

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Class Read Aloud Encouraged

Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it's worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.

Joy Tears Hands Worth Jump Turn

Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance along the road, which also winds through foothills and the fringes of heavy jungle where tigers are said to roam. The vegetation, wild or cultivated, is lush.

Green Road Rich Distance Jungle

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