Marie Lu Quotes

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Girl
  • You
  • Chinese

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Hair
  • Flowers
  • Everybody

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sacrifice

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Home
  • Day

• I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Think
  • Option

• I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Different
  • Always
  • Looking

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Career
  • Dream

• I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I'd never rule anything out, to be honest with you, whether it be the small of volunteer status for a community organization or national politics, who knows?

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Small
  • Community
  • Politics

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Change

• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Luxury

• Sometimes when I'm healthier on a big day, I feel better about myself. If I eat terribly and I don't sleep well and I drink too much - three or four or five days in a row - it really catches up to me. It's good to have one fun day, as I call it, whether it be a Saturday, a Sunday, a Monday. It doesn't matter.

  

  Molly Sims
  • Sometimes
  • Matter
  • Saturday

• I do know that people treat me different with blonde hair than they do with red hair.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Different
  • Hair

• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  

  Bernard Levin
  • World
  • War
  • Pain

• We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

  

  Marie Lu
  • Long
  • Book
  • War