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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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.
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I've learned to compensate for my small size.
