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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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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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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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.
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It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
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Just when it's the two of us, he doesn't whine as much.
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I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.
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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.
