Lynne Reid Banks Quotes

#1. I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

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#2. When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

David Guterson

#3. Cupboard. The strange little key, which had been his great-grandmother's,

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#4. Things like this - love-relationships - need a certain minimum of proximity to keep them going.

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#5. With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Andre Gide

#6. Love lost by one moment's explicit unfairness can't be won back by trying to justify it

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#7. Innocence is ignorance.

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#8. That it's possible to be against the circus, not because you're afraid to die there, but because it's wicked and wrong.
~Aurelia, 152

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#9. What did I tell you when you were little girl? The only way we women can get through our lives honorably is with courage and resignation, both.
~168

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#10. The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing ...

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#11. My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

Victor Pinchuk

#12. I find writing for children much easier. I don't mean it's less demanding - you've got to have a talent for it and you've got to work very hard - but you don't have to pull your guts out and lay them on the line in quite the same way as when you're writing for adults.

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#13. Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the assumption that they'll do as they're told, and they do.

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#14. Pirates of the Caribbean, move over! Make room for a crew of mouse-privateers who will capture your hearts and stop your breath with their thrilling sea-going adventures! A wonderful story, full of bold mice, good and wicked, who will show you what courage really means.

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#15. The BBC is very good at period drama - world-famous for getting the details right.

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#16. Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

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#17. It's funny how, when you really want to say something bitchy and cutting to someone who's been bitchy to you, you can't think of anything till afterwards. When there's no real call for it, you come suddenly out with a piece of 9-carat bitchery that shakes even you.

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#18. I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an actor.' A couple of weeks after I graduated college I called my mother up and said 'Can I borrow $200?' and she said 'Why don't you act like you've got $200.'

Arsenio Hall

#19. How alone am I right now? Even my car has decided to give up on me.

David Levithan

#20. With hands that shook, Omri probed into the depths of the chest till he found the box-within-a-box-within-a-box.

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#21. You touch, I kill.

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