Suzanne Collins Quotes
Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.
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When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal.
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He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
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And we call upon others to join us on the right side of history - for while small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
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All they need to do is to set up some website somewhere selling some bogus product at twenty percent of the normal market prices and people are going to be tricked into providing their credit card numbers.
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You cannot love a car the way you love a horse. The horse brings out human feelings the way machines cannot do. Things like machines may develop or neglect certain things in people ... Machines make our life impersonal and stultify certain elements in us and create an impersonal environment.
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In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
