Lois Lowry Quotes
It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Midi is my hobby.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I don't know what 'famous' is, really.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
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Writing - not being a writer with interesting habits - gets priority.
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I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
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Mysteries always have the potential for interesting connections between the elements. I'm also most interested in the relationship between the characters. As in 'Masterpiece,' I'm trying to create characters who not only are solving a mystery but are solving the riddle of their own personal relationships.
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It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.
