Jill Lepore Quotes
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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The fact I even get an opportunity to make one album is crazy. But if all goes to plan, I'll get to make five albums. That'd be nice.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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A new report says that dogs can sniff out prostate cancer with almost 98 percent accuracy. The report also finds that cats can sniff it out with 100 percent accuracy but they prefer to watch you die.
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When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
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I do quite a lot of flying in my concerts.
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Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.