Penelope Lively Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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I wish I were big.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
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Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
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I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.
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I'm a character actor.
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The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
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World fertility surveys indicate that anywhere from one third to one half of the babies born in the Third World would not be if their mothers had access to cheap, reliable family planning, had enough personal empowerment to stand up to their husbands and relatives, and could choose their own family size.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
