Sharon Draper Quotes

I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platform for parents and teachers to have frank, meaningful discussions with those young people.

Sharon Draper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 21, 1948

Topics

ParentsPeopleVoiceSpeakYoung

'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Max Weber

CultureWorldProcessMeaningHuman

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Jean Racine

ArtRulesAchievePrincipalFirst

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

Siobhan Fahey

DayNobodyCompanyUsOffPress

People wanted to do science outside of classical institutions like universities or big corporations, so we embraced it.

Ryan Bethencourt

SciencePeopleOutsideBigLike

A lot of people don't do this. You can count on a couple of hands probably how many artists also produce and write, both for themselves and for others, and are able to be successful at both things.

Missy Elliott

PeopleHandsYouOthersWriteCount

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions.

Judy Biggert

BelieveQuestionsSupreme CourtFinal

I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.

Johnny Mathis

SportsInjuriesCareerPriceOver

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

Derek Jacobi

LifeCityMeThoughtsThinkSeeing

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

Derek Cianfrance

CharacterJoyPeopleMeLooking

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

David Sze

WorldNetworkingEarlyGoSocial

Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.

Connie Willis

ScienceAmazingThinkLiteratureYou

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Britney Spears

MyselfJustLikeDefiningAm

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