Louise Rennison Quotes
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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I am tone deaf.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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One school invited me down, as two pupils had come out, and the headmaster didn't know what to do about it. I said, 'How many students here are gay?' and he said, 'Just these two.' Clearly not. 'How many gay members of staff have you got?' He had no idea. And this was a concerned man.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
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I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll be a bloke, they don’t have to make sense either.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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Look, I can't go out with you, because... because... because I'm a lesbian.
