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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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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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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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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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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'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.
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I'm my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I've been through so much, just in my life.
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We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
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Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
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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.'
