Edan Lepucki Quotes
I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
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I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.
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Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.
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...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
