"Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?"

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Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.191, Random House Books for Young Readers

Jeanne DuPrau

“I started playing with digital technology early on in my work. I made digital collages with costumed figures using early versions of Photoshop in the 90s. I was trying to use the newly available digital technologies to combine real people and places with new imagined possibilities.”
“Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.”
“Before, I said that they were maybe the best supporters in England. Now maybe they are the best supporters in Europe.”
“At one point I wanted to work for NASA and be an astrophysicist, so I did physics, math, and chemistry before realizing I probably wasn't quite smart enough to do that. But I am still hugely interested in cosmology and astrophysics. That is my geeky subject area.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I happen to be one of those lucky people who says that she's a working actor. And to always be working is very fulfilling and I'm just lucky because the opportunities just came up. And as an Asian American female actor, the opportunities have been furthering, have been widening all across the years. And I can say that there are many young people who see that the opportunities are expanding, as well as you can make it yourself.”
“Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.”

Source : Loot (1967) act 2
“Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.”
“I lowered the gun but didnâ€™t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.”

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