Lauren Greenfield Quotes
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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I knew what it was at last-the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.
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Poetry can be written only because it has been written.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.
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A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.
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When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.
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I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.
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I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.
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He flushes at his presence in a comfort station.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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That idea is strange to me. People keep on loving? People keep on loving even if you are not there in their face everyday to remind them? People keep on loving even if they no longer see you at all? People keep on loving even if they are loving someone else? Impossible: to believe you can be loved in absence when you don't even know how it feels to be loved when you are there.
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I am very lucky that my first film was fully commissioned by HBO.
