Penelope Lively Quotes
The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
Quotes to Explore
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
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If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.
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The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.
