Lauren Oliver Quotes
One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green
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The hymn 'Amazing Grace' is so inspirational - I wish I'd written it.
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I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.
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China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
