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 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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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.
