Lois Lowry Quotes
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.Lois Lowry
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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.
Naomi Watts -
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith -
I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
Carl Lewis -
I'm not looking to shock anyone.
Victoria Justice -
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.
Octavia Spencer -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu -
I kind of crave loneliness.
Sam Heughan -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
Adam Ostrow -
I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
Kate Hudson -
I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
Zoe Sugg
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There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. Howe -
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
Salman Khan -
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand -
I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
Kate Brown -
But everything of value about me is in my books.
V. S. Naipaul -
Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane -
So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.
Dax Shepard -
I started playing in a band when I was eleven years old. We did a three piece, and we started playing instrumentals.
Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians -
I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
Zachary Gordon -
As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world.
Pramila Jayapal -
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Lois Lowry