Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes

The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.

Penelope Fitzgerald

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• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

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• When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

  

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• I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.

  

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• I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

  

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• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  

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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

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• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

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• What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?

  

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• A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

  

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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

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• Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

  

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• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

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• My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then, I just decided I was okay with myself. To have short hair and really show my face is even more revealing than anything. It's a statement - not to everyone else, more to myself. I'm just ready to get out from behind my hair and be myself.

  

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• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

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• Enjoying fiction requires a shift in selfhood. You give up your own identity and try on the identities of other people, adopting their perspectives so as to share their experiences. This allows us to enjoy fictional events that would shock and sadden us in real life.

  

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• Like all power seekers, Pae was amazingly shortsighted. There was a trivial, abortive quality to his mind, it lacked depth, affect, imagination. It was, in fact, a primitive instrument.

  

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• Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

  

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• When I was a young writer if you went to a party and told somebody you were a science-fiction writer you would be insulted. They would call you Flash Gordon all evening, or Buck Rogers.

  

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• The frame of mind, however, is everything. Given that, one can have a very satisfactory party all by oneself.

  

  Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Mind
  • Party