Penelope Lively Quotes
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
Ed Stoppard -
I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
Adam DeVine -
People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
Utada Hikaru -
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
Kajal Aggarwal -
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
Ralph Ellison
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King -
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
Ian Rush -
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
Lapo Elkann -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
Eddie Marsan -
I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
L'Wren Scott
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
Vanessa Bayer -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson -
North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Wallace Stevens -
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon -
Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
Malcolm Forbes
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I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.
Drew Barrymore -
Bends to the grave with unperceived decay,While resignation gently slopes the way;And, all his prospects brightening to the last,His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Oliver Goldsmith -
That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
Tahj Mowry -
Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.
Manmohan Singh -
It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.
Jack Williamson -
We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
Penelope Lively