Marie Lu Quotes
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.
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What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.
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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
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I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
