Jill Lepore Quotes
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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History shows that any attempt by government to interfere in the consumption of salt is always extremely unpopular.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.
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There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!
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I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.
