Jill Lepore Quotes
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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Curvy is something to be proud of.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.
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That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'
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Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success.
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As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
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In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.