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.

Angie Thomas

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HateSchoolCollegeStoryShort

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

Maya Angelou

MusicHopeDanceMeSongYou

I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.

Matt Harvey

BaseballStartWeekHouseGoKnow

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

Stephen Colletti

LoveHappyMomCrazyTreesClimbing

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Stendhal

StyleNowWillFortyYearsNobility

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

Sophia Bush

MeYouKnowPassionateSecretMeal

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

Stan Getz

YouSoundGotBassEvenEra

I practice going backward all the time.

Stipe Miocic

TimePracticeGoingBackward

And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.

Tom Scholz

LifeAnimalStartThinkAmerica

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

Michael York

GameFaceThinkYouFeelingKnow

Don't judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn't do my laundry.

Michelle Obama

JudgeLaundryUnderwearBuyUsed

I was really gratified that, of all the episodes of 'Cooked,' the baking one really hit a chord. There were months where there were dozens of loaves posted from people on my Twitter feed every day... And it's a little bit of a guy thing. Most of those loaves put up on Twitter were put up there by guys.

Michael Pollan

DayPeopleBakingEvery DayUpGuy

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Liza Minnelli

HelpEarlyMeanGetDiseaseLearned

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