Lois Lowry Quotes
Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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'Of course, the test difficulty depends on what you're doing, and on how you're doing it. I'm constantly asking 'How much would I have to screw this up to write an incorrect function that passes these simple tests?' Occasionally the answer is 'Not much,' so I'll throw the code away and start over. It was probably perfect code, but that's not good enough.' 1
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For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.
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Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.
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A loverboy's shelf life is very limited.
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Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.
