Penelope Lively Quotes
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.
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In order to grow we must be open to new ideas...new ways of doing things... new ways of thinking.
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An honest money system is the only alternative.
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I don’t want to accept an idea of life where the success of the self is measured by the success of the written page.
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Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
