Louisa Hall Quotes
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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Federal regulations should promote safety without unnecessarily burdening small firms and costing much-needed jobs.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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My name can raise money on a small-budget film.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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Beware of politicians who tell you they'll do all these wonderful things for you for only a small tax increase. Those tax increases are never as small as you might imagine, and the benefits are always smaller than promised and/or imagined.
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Usually, you see this play as a guy who can't make up his mind, but our version is more of a revenge thriller than a man who is pontificating what he should do next. I've never seen a 'Hamlet' this big, this exciting, with this many cast members; it's quite a spectacle.
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School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland.
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People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.
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I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.
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I've learned to compensate for my small size.
