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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The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
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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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I don't see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.
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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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I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.
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In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
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The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
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Their stupidity does not amaze me, its when they're smart that amazes me. It's baffling whenever you find someone who's smart - incredible. Soon you'll have zoos for such things.
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That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.
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Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
