Jill Lepore Quotes
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Jill Lepore
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
Randy Wayne
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Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
Natalie Goldberg
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
Gary Weiss
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
Aaron Levie
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
Garry Marshall
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We must respect the interior laws of creation, of this Earth, to learn these laws and obey them if we want to survive.
Pope Benedict XVI
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It was a good feeling to have a lot of support. A lot of people respect me as a player but also as a person as well.
Kevin Martin
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
Aaron Spelling
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
Franz Wright
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The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
Jill Lepore