Penelope Lively Quotes
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.Penelope Lively
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We continue to be bullish on China.
Carlos Ghosn -
It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
Harriet Harman -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
Ted Yoho -
The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
Victor LaValle -
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jenner
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga -
I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
Madison Pettis -
The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
Jack Nicklaus -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi -
The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
Harland Williams -
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
Viggo Mortensen -
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
A. J. Liebling -
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer -
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
Van Morrison -
People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
Jim Crace
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I was hanging out and drinking as long as I could afford it, or as long as somebody else could afford it.
Carl Andre -
Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.
Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy -
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Practicing free speech on an open platform is a perilous path for any public figure, and there are no get-out-of-jail free passes in the court of public opinion.
Elaine Welteroth -
The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction.
Penelope Lively