Lois Lowry Quotes
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
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I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it's OK, that you're not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I was born in Senegal in 1996. My mom moved to New York when I was two years old, so I was raised by my aunt back home.
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To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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The idea there were kids out there who didn't love to read and write just as much as I did struck me. So I went around schools and tried to make other kids love to read and write.
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I am not someone who would raise my voice to seek publicity. I am a responsible citizen, and I continue to be so.
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I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.
