Louis Sachar Quotes
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I choose to express myself.
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In most cultures, men represent tradition and women represent change and future. Women, because of their ability to give birth, are more connected to future. Men tend to keep the status quo.
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I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
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The first fight I ever saw live was the first Castillo-Corrales match in Las Vegas in 2005.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.
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I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
