Penelope Lively Quotes
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.Penelope Lively
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
Larry Niven -
When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
Sally Rand -
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
Taylor Swift -
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
Nancy Cartwright -
Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
Vikram Seth -
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?
Walter Dean Myers
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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.
Karl Pilkington -
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
Samora Machel -
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.
Isaac Asimov -
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.
Mal Peet -
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde -
My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.
Rand Paul
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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.
Gabrielle Union -
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.
Dana Plato -
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
Flannery O'Connor -
It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.
Candice Bergen -
I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
Harold Larwood -
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts.
C. S. Lewis -
You really can't turn on TLC without seeing us.
Paige Davis -
But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
David Korten -
It's always magical when you're out here, because anything can happen.
John Rich Lonestar -
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
Penelope Lively