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Sharon Creech Quotes

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Sharon Creech

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 29, 1945

Topics

Character Purpose You Find Place

I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.

Joanna Coles

Love Trying Understand Going Just

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

Jessie Mueller

Family Car Growing Up Long Growing

I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

John Legend

Music Great Time Responsibility Song

I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I went with him to excavate in Bolivia and Peru. I never finished high school. I was a straight F student anyway. My father admitted to me later that he'd thought I would come to no good.

Michael Heizer

Good Father School City Me Thought

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

Stephen Tobolowsky

Memory Brain Forward Meaning You

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

Simon Bird

Writing Comedy Acting Way Always

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

Luca Parmitano

Opportunity People Speak Down Earth

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Communication Honesty People Treat

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time. But if we fail to do this, then unless we intend hereafter to violate the Constitution, we shall have a fugitive slave law in operation whenever the war is over.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Time War Law Slavery Constitution

I love to watch movies.

Judy Blume

Love Movies Watch I Love

Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.

Jose Carreras

Positive Out Things Difficulty Come

It's not necessarily all about commercial success. It's about inspiring in the world and having what you do seen as art and a contribution to the world.

Chris March

Success Art World You Contribution