Lauren Oliver Quotes
With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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You can't watch 'Daredevil' or 'Jessica Jones' or the Marvel films and not be aware that the villain has to be awesome. I've always wanted to have more space. And the scope, morally, is more broad for the villain than the hero.
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Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.
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At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.
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Anytime someone asks me to look at a new house with them, I'm like, 'Yes!'
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With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge.
