Louis Sachar Quotes
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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I got tired of playing other people's songs.
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We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.
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They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.
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It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!
