Lois Lowry Quotes
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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War is over if you want it.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Coping with injuries is always difficult for athletes because all we want to do is, basically, to have our best performances unhindered.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
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I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'
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East and West, most societies have come to believe that competition will produce more prosperity for more people than a planned economy. I share that belief.
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
