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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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
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Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.
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Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.
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At its best, life is completely unpredictable.
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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.
