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.'
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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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.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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'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.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.
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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
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If I were a doctor nobody would be inviting me to talk to reservations. I'd be a different person. Writers can influence more people.
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We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property - that's one of the signs we look for.
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We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.
