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Dee Brown Quotes

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Dee Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 29, 1908 - December 12, 2002

Topics

Book Feel You Back Done Everything

I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It was a very free upbringing, and I'm grateful to my parents for that.

Amanda Burton

Grateful Parents Free Loved Walking

The idea of being in a television series is a wonderful one to be considered, but you want to make sure it's the right thing for you because if you are fortunate enough to have something go for a long term, you want to make sure that it's something that you really want to be spending a bulk of your time on.

Stephen Lang

Time Enough Long You Television Go

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Steven Strait

New York Growing Up Village Young Up

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Roger Staubach

Best Team Consistency Chemistry Any

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

Mary Oliver

People Learn Way Respond Read Poems

I grew up with a lot of brothers, and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted.

Mickalene Thomas

Me Important Always Up Something

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

Minnie Pearl

Speak Think You Go Said Out

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Jon Katz

Life Change Writing Animals Dogs

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Christopher Lasch

Advertising News Propaganda Liberal

Once you understand what a messy, emotional, and destructive dynamic 'fairness' can be, you can see why 'fair' is a tremendously powerful word that you need to use with care.

Christopher Voss

Care You Powerful Fairness Why Need

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

Colin Kaepernick

Freedom Justice People End Giving

When I was a young child, professional aspiration was synonymous to me with the clatter of my mother's high-heeled boots as she went off to teach each 1970s weekday morning, carrying her graded blue books under her arm.

Alissa Quart

Mother Morning Blue Child Me Boots