Penelope Lively Quotes
I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.
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If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
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I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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Love – the more you share with others, the more you have.
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I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children.
