Lois Lowry Quotes
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
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They sang of love, and not of fame;Forgot was Britain's glory;Each heart recalled a different name,But all sang Annie Lawrie.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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You have to have the right mind-set.
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I often turn to my books when my own writing is having a hard time.
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The conventions of an almighty agency tapping you for greatness and signing you up and telling you this is going to be the next big thing; that has not been my career.
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My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
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I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
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As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
