Lois Lowry Quotes
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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I'm still very much Kate.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece that men wear every day, and it's something that I would wear for any occasion, whether it's on the street or going to an awards ceremony.
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I'm a singer, and I never lost sight of that.
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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
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People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
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Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
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The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
