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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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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Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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It's definitely something you have to learn: that you are going to be judged and scrutinised, but you have to decide how much you listen to and how much you let other people's opinions in.
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You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.
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We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.
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I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.
