Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes
It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
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I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.
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'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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Where there is love there is life.
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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In my world, of course, it don't matter. You could be a gangster with a dress, you could be a gangster with baggy pants.
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An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
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I have a bit of a lava lamp fetish. They are kind of hideous, but there is something so therapeutic about them.
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Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?
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It's bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody's miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity.
