Penelope Lively Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I'm a sneakerhead. I probably have a couple hundred pair of shoes. I got all sorts of shoes.
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I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
