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 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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I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.
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Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.
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A really hard lesson to learn is that most of the time, it's not about you.
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Reading is so private, and it is often a reader's habit to finish a book, close the covers, and plunge into the next one without a backward glance.
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I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly.
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His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.
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For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.
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The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."
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I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
