Sharon Draper Quotes

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.

Sharon Draper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

Jhonen Vasquez

KidsStuffDidBeforeWaysCertain

I speak from experience, and I speak from the heart, and I speak only what I know and what I understand; and on what I don't know and what I don't understand, I'm a good listener.

Jermaine Fowler

GoodHeartExperienceSpeakKnow

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Joel Osteen

LifeGoodLiveGodMistakesAngry

You have to have a life. And life has to go on when your voice shuts down on you and you have to take a break from what you're doing for a career.

Steve Kazee

LifeVoiceDoingYouCareerDown

I've always played music. But you know, in eastern Kentucky, everybody plays music.

Sturgill Simpson

MusicYouKnowAlwaysKentucky

I am not a heavy drinker, I've never taken a drug in my life, but I am prone to a pizza.

Tony Bellew

LifeI AmPizzaMy LifeNeverHeavy

I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.

Robbie Robertson

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I think I'm a common man for the most part, but I don't work as hard as most people that I know.

Jason Isbell

WorkManPeopleThinkKnowHard

I think I am worth a lot of money.

Jason Pierre-Paul

MoneyI AmThinkWorthI ThinkAm

My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

Anne Lamott

FearFaithMeGreenStartLeaf

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

Shereen El Feki

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Look, I think the notion that there's a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is really nonsense.

Paul Wolfowitz

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