Louis Sachar Quotes
But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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All these rumors about [Tom Cruise] being gay. I don't believe it. I don't believe it for one minute. He hasn't been to one of my shows.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
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I was grateful for the darkness that hid our faces at least, but nothing can hide the voice. It is always naked.
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But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.
