Lois Lowry Quotes
I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.
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Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dialogue. In film writing, it's also, you only get so many words, so everything has to earn its place in a really economical way. I think for stage writing, you have more leeway.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.
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I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.
