Lois Lowry Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
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Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.
