Jill Lepore Quotes
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul.
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You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.
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When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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When you finish a film, you never want to see it again.
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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities.
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
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I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
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If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.
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There is only one legend. That's me.
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In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
