Lois Lowry Quotes
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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I love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.
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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
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I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.
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We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.
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Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
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The root cause of terrorism lies not in grievances but in a disposition toward unbridled violence. This can be traced to a world view which asserts that certain ideological and religious goals justify, indeed demand, the shedding of all moral inhibitions.
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I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
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I have confidence that the government of Luxembourg will not make any decision that frustrates this transaction.
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The best possible preparation for the future is a well lived present.
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David Cameron wants people to believe that his isolation in Europe is a result of Britain being outnumbered when it matters most.
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There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.
