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The more you can distract yourself, the better.

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Suzanne Collins
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 10
Executive Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Suzanne Marie Collins
Suzanne Collins
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All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.
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Who says i can't handle it? I can handle it, said Gregor obviously not handling it.
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It crosses my mind that Cinna's calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.
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Tomorrow's a hunting day, I say. I won't be much of a help with that, Peeta says. I've never hunted before. I'll kill and you cook, I say. And you can always gather. I wish there was some sort of bread bush out there, says Peeta.
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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours, I say. For what? Nothing's going on here, he says. Besides, I like watching you sleep. You don't scowl. Improves your looks a lot. This, of course, brings on a scowl that makes him grin.
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There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone. 'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.' (Katniss and Boggs)
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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 rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.
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In that one slight motion, I see the end of hope, beginning of destruction of everything I hold dear in the world. I can't guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished there most likely be nothing left. So you would think that at this moment, I would be in utter despair.
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Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.
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I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away.
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Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss. What? I ask. The time it sticks. Maybe we are witnessing the evolution of the human race. Think about that. And then he asks me if I'd like to perform on a new singing program he's launching in a few weeks. Something upbeat would be good. He'll send the crew to my house.
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Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.
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And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day, she said. Do you see?
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For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.
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I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
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If you had hope, maybe you could find a way to make things change,. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
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District 12: Where you can starve to death in safety.
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Not like this. He wanted it to be real.
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I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.
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