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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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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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 lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
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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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Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
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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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A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation)
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If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
