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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I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.
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Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
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Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
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Of the huge part of our generation who have used drugs, how many have told their parents, to this day, even though they are now successful professionals and parents and what have you? There's a need to come out of the closet and talk openly about drug use. As things stand, the only kind of use that is visible is either the dysfunctional drug use or the media portraits of it. So there's this incredibly skewed view of what drugs are about.
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One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
