Marie Lu Quotes

I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

Marie Lu

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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Increase

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reading
  • Like
  • Hearing

• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Things
  • Changes
  • Impact

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Obsessed
  • General
  • Sneakers

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Woman

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Education
  • Confidence

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Ignore
  • Lazy

• If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Football

• Writing is the supreme solace.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Communication

• To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• When I return to the writing process after being away from it for a while, the first part of it always is being honest with myself: What am I into right now? Is it rock bands and guitars, is it noise, is it dance beats and electronics? Is it space, is it clutter?

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Rock

• I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

  

  Marie Lu
  • Writing
  • Teenager