Jill Lepore Quotes
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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A broad trend I'm completely obsessed with is mobile commerce. Like completely. I'm completely convinced that everybody's going to be buying from their mobile devices. Whoever can claim that space or be in that space, I'm very interested in.
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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I wanted to be an actress but I liked organizing everybody and putting on plays. I was a producer.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.
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I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'
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All of us at reddit work here because we think that reddit is a community like none other. We think it can be a powerful force to change the world for the better.
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
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Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.
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Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.
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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
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My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest.
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Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the fireless days and the meatless days, the cold winters and the sharp tongues? It's not as if we had a choice.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
