Louis Sachar Quotes
There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.
