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.
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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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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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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'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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There's no need for a female character that does things like a male character; that's not what makes interesting female characters in my view.
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What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.
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I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.
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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.
