Jill Lepore Quotes

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Jill Lepore

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• I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Love
  • New York
  • London

• Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Start

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• 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.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Space
  • Going
  • Mobile

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Sometimes

• Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Conservative
  • Situations
  • Religiously

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• '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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • History
  • Science
  • Drama

• 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.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Cooking
  • Celebrity
  • Hollywood

• I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Care
  • Really

• I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • School
  • High
  • Normal

• Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Shows
  • Fortunate

• 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.'

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Yishan Wong
  • World
  • Work
  • Community

• 'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Children

• Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Play
  • Rock

• My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

  

  Claudia Black
  • Black
  • Mountain
  • Storm

• I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Game
  • Know
  • Always

• When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Thinking
  • Laughing
  • Rodeo

• In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

  

  Rumi
  • Music
  • House
  • Lovers

• Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

  

  Jill Lepore