Lois Lowry Quotes

'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 20, 1937

Topics

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You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

Jim Brown

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I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Jennifer Lee

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Even when we were under the Spanish flag, we had a movement that just wanted assimilation into Spain, a movement of autonomy - which has been the majority always - and a movement for separation. In that sense, Puerto Rico's political reality is very different from any place I know in the whole world.

Anibal Acevedo Vila

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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

John Wooden

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Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

Tracy Morgan

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If you were to see me as a cheerleader, that would mean I was only watching instead of thinking.

Tom Landry

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Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Lloyd Bridges

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I'm just trying to keep things rich for me creatively and for the readers who follow me.

Colson Whitehead

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I worked hard, and I was always frustrated when wrestlers didn't want to work as hard.

Bret Hart

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A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest.

Antonin Scalia

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Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.

Alice Dreger

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People like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington.

Scott Walker

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