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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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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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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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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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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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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I've never been a fearful person. When I was growing up, I wanted to be an actress, a writer, and a musician and I never really processed that those are the three hardest jobs - I just never even processed it.
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Why are people making it so difficult for girls to live the way they want to in India? Let's not make India a place where a girl has to think 10 times before going out or wearing what she wants.
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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.
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Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
