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Been Quotes by Lois Lowry
- I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
- I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that…
- Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But…
- I write books because I have always been fascinated by stories and language, and because I love thinking about what makes people tick. Writing a…
- I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that…
- She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because…
- I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
- Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of…
- There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
- I never, as a reader, have been particularly interested in dystopian literature or science fiction or, in fact, fantasy.
- The grand surprise has really been the fact that being an author, which to me had always implied being a private person, actually requires you…
More Been Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour