Marie Lu Quotes
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets.
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You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to the way I speak I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument that concept comes through very clearly. In fact some people who've seen me play have noticed that I'm singing - but it's more that I'm actually speaking. So it's not really about the instrument. But for me, in my thinking, the music is all about the melody. When I compose, 99 percent of the time I start with the melody.
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You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.
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Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!
