Jill Lepore Quotes
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
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Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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When I was thirteen I basically asked my mother if it was possible for this to end, that I'd had enough of it. And I truly had had enough. And that was right about the time that we got a call for a movie interview.
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Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.
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In antihistory, time is an illusion.
