Penelope Lively Quotes
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I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
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'Salaryitis' is when you become so accustomed to that salary that you no longer have the gumption to pull out of the rut and strike out on your own. It destroys the nerve of ambitious, imaginative men, and bowing to it has meant sure defeat for more people than any other sickness, mental or physical.
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
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As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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The air which is struck with most swiftness by the movable thing is compressed to the greatest degree in itself.
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With respect to drugs, you know, there are a lot of organizations, including an enormous budget and an army at the federal government level that tries to deal with the drug problem.
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We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.
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I hate Botox, but a fabulous-looking friend of mine told me her secret was this gadget that uses electrical impulses to tone your facial muscles. It works!
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We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
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We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.
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A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
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My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.
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If...we do not think that a local church is worthy of joining, why should we be considered worthy of serving in it?
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The unprecedented leap the Negro made when freed from the oppressing withes of bondage is more than deserving of a high place in history. It can never be chronicled. The world needs to know of what mettle these people are built.
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It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.
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I rather like getting away from fiction.
