Lauren Oliver Quotes
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
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In times of huge fiscal deficits, no new revenues can be ignored, and renouncing any becomes well nigh politically impossible.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.
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Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.
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'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.
