Laura Lippman Quotes

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

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• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Opportunities

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Happy
  • Care
  • Audiences

• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Poets
  • Audiences

• I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Play
  • Teacher
  • Student

• The English Channel is such a narrow little puddle, you cannot help wondering why no invader has succeeded in crossing it since 1066.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Help
  • English

• Doing my own album provided me the opportunity to say whatever I wanted.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Opportunity

• America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Time
  • Family
  • America

• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • Joy
  • Imagination

• All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

  

  James Lecesne
  • Help
  • Faith
  • Community

• Having been through breakups when you get back with the person thinking it's going to work the second time - it never does.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Up
  • Selfish

• If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

  

  Dylan Moran

• When I listen to hip-hop, it's like no big difference how people sing in my village, 'cause bling would be their cow.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • People

• The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can’t wait to die.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Food
  • Perspective
  • Relations

• When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Songs
  • Audiences
  • Arrangements

• I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.

  

  Rick Riordan
  • People
  • Children
  • Chance

• As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Peace

• If we have not struggled as hard as we can at our strongest how will we sense the shape of our losses or know what sustains us longest or name what change costs us, saying how strange it is that one sector of the self can step in for another in trouble, how loss activates a latent double, how we can feed as upon nectar upon need?

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Struggle
  • Sense
  • Losses

• The Satanist realizes that man, and the action and reaction of the universe, is responsible for everything, and doesn't mislead himself into thinking that someone cares.

  

  Anton Szandor LaVey
  • Action
  • Universe
  • Responsible

• I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Audiences
  • Writes