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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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 feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.
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When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.
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Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.
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I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.
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To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.
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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.
