Penelope Lively Quotes
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
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I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.
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If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.
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I'm not against gay people.
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There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street:Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink.
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I'm not interested in parts where they are looking for a good-looking guy. I want to be a weird little sidekick in a crazy comedy and then play like a dark drama or a thriller.
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I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
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No matter what town you are in, there is some social order and a different yardstick to chart. In New York, people create things like schools and speaking languages and second homes.
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That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
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I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
