Andrea Levy Quotes
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I promised to keep on going but maybe keep on going means coming back first.
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Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.
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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
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Time will bring healing.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.
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Some might call my trepidation at the idea of motherhood “selfishness”—I would call it “agency”—but those people are probably either (1) dudes or (2) self-satisfied professional parents, and I’m not sure I care enough about their opinions that I wouldn’t just agree with them and shrug my shoulders in shared chagrin.
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I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
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A kiss from my mother made me a painter.
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I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial'
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I got into television criticism because I thought it would be easier than film criticism. Film, you had to know 100 years of history, and TV you only had to know 40 when I started. And I thought, "Well, that's going to be so much easier." But film stayed pretty much the same. And television has changed so many times that my head hurts. So I made the wrong call there.
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Without Bates, they didn't have the penetration they usually get.
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I don't think you've ever heard anything bad about me, and I'd like to keep it that way.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Whenever you become empowered, you will be tested.
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Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with regard to the skin of the flesh that after a little while oozes putrefaction.
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It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.
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If truly tested, how would we react?
