Lois Lowry Quotes
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.
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I never have regrets! What's the point?
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Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.
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The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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People in the know say 'The Giver' was the first young adult dystopian novel.
