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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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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Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
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Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time.
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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.
