"If I took the 40 years of my……" — Suzanne Collins
"If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war."
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856 Quotes by Suzanne Collins
Suzanne Collins has 856 quotes on this site.
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Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is…
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It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry…
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And, my God, the actors. The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It’s…
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If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and…
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The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.
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Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.
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Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a…
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To be honest, I'm not much of a drinker. It makes me sick, and I hate that.
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Upon this crown my pledge I give, To my last breath,I hold this choice, I will your unjust deaths avenge,…
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your…
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More Battlefields Quotes
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields…
— Hassan al-Banna
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields,…
— Walt Whitman
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect…
— Henry Waxman
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along…
— Charles Duhigg
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of…
— Nile Kinnick
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
— Alfred M. Gray
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