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'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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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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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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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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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
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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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I don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't. I like the animated ones, but I just don't have time to watch a lot of TV.
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There are a lot of hackers today, you know, and they perform their work in such a filigreed and delicate manner and they can show their "tracks" anywhere and anytime. It may not even be a track; they can cover their activity so that it looks like hackers operating from other territories, from other countries. It is hard to check this activity, maybe not even possible. Anyway, we do not do that at the national level.
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I try to do something active everyday. Liking what you're doing makes working out enjoyable.
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I don't approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that's true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.
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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.
