Louis Sachar Quotes
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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The typographic logic created 'the outsider,' the alienated mass, as the type of integral, that is, intuitive and irrational, man. (p. 241)
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.
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I don't know any women who are one-dimensional, so why would I play one?
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I would like to see an agreement that recognizes that we live on the same planet and that some interests, such as human rights, must be universal and that all religions must be respected.
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I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.
