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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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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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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Whether you eat a vegetarian diet or you include a very small amount of animal foods, for optimal health you must get the majority of calories from unrefined plant food with a minimal amount of animal products. A large quantity of unrefined plant food grants the greatest protection against developing serious disease.
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A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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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.
