Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes
Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.
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The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it's a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
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Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.
