Lois Lowry Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.
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Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.
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When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.
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The first person is a tradition I relate to and that I use; historically, it's been the voice I work in. But the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I'm referred to as a 'confessional' writer.
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In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.
