Lois Lowry Quotes
Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Justice is revenge.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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For a young player like me, it is good to play for a club that can get to the semi – finals because one of the reasons I play football is for these big games.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
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Comparing Madonna with Marilyn Monroe is like comparing Raquel Welch with the back of a bus.
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TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
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For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.
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Kids have no sense of appropriateness. They can ask me whatever they want. You do develop a sense of intimacy with readers, and they tell you things about themselves. During a school year, I'll get e-mails asking about the books. I'll give them information, but I won't do their homework for them.
