Lee Tergesen Quotes
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.
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If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
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There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats.
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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I have good stamina and good endurance.
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If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
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Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.
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With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear
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Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
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Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.
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When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
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To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.
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It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season.
