Louis Sachar Quotes
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
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I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?
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We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
