Lois Lowry Quotes
I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
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The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.
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If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
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Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
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The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.
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I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
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Musically, I always wanted to experiment.
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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
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I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have something cool happen to him, and it would take, like, five days to figure out how to tweet it.
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I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field.
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I get to hang out with Billy Bob Thornton at his house. We hang out over there every time we're in L.A., because he doesn't go out. We'll hang and he'll play us some of his tunes. It's pretty awesome.
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I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
