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 whip's office is almost more educational - educating members on the bill itself, listening to members ahead of time.
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I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all that kind of stuff.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.
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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.
