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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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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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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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
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Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet.
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I'm a non-confrontational person. If I order salmon and I get chicken, I'm going to eat the chicken.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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There's so much bullshit around now in pop and hip-hop, and everybody's talking about the same fucking shit, like get the fuck outta here. That shit is horrible. I don't hate anybody, but that shit pisses me off. It's bullshit. So I wanna change things up and make people go, "Aw, man, this is the hot shit. Eamon talks from the heart. He's real."
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
