Louis Sachar Quotes
I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.Louis Sachar
Quotes to Explore
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
Rachel Nichols -
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld -
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt -
Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
Dan Kildee -
Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson -
I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
Olesya Rulin
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I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.
Sam Hunt -
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen -
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann -
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
Walter Dean Myers -
I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
Nate Torrence
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
Taylor Swift -
I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
Radha Mitchell -
I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
Nat Wolff -
I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. Truett Cathy -
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
Edmund Hillary
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There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises.
Lindsey Buckingham -
With equal sweetness the commissioned hours Shed light and dew upon both weeds and flowers. The weeds unthankful raise their vile heads high, Flaunting back insult to the gracious sky; While the dear flowers, wht fond humility, Uplift the eyelids of a starry eye In speechless homage, and, from grateful hearts, Perfume that homage all around imparts.
Margaret Fuller -
I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'
Betty Gilpin -
If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
Joe Dante -
I find the more you analyze, the less you really know.
Paul Rodgers Bad Company -
I'm not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don't like answering their questions.
Louis Sachar