Lois Lowry Quotes
'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
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People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.
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'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
