Penelope Lively Quotes
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Quotes to Explore
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
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I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.
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I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
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I think the thing I fear most in life is waking up one day and not feeling challenge - feeling ambivalent or glib about what I have to do that day.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity.
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'It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.'
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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
