Lois Lowry Quotes
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
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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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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 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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.
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If you know anything about Ethiopia, they are very security conscious, a very closed environment. It's a repressive place were journalists and bloggers are arrested all the time.
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When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.
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Seeing what kinds of songs work in other cities and other parts of the world was pretty eye-opening. I know it changed how I approached the second record big-time.
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I always have homemade chicken stock in the refrigerator. I'll reduce it, maybe add a little cream and a few shallots. Before you know it, eureka! It's the best.
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I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
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The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
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As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
