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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A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.
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Curvy models are becoming more and more vocal about the isolating nature of the term 'plus-size.' We are calling ourselves what we want to be called - women, with shapes that are our own.
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I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.
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When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
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Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
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The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.
