Lev Grossman Quotes
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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John Hughes loved improvisers.
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When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
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My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was horrible. I got picked on like no tomorrow.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.
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'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.
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I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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I can make $4 million somewhere else. My body is for me and for whoever my love interest is at that moment, and that's the only person who gets to see it.
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What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.
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I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don’t carry myself as a boy.
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What's not fascinating about 'Wonder Woman?' She's powerful. She's strong. She gets her strength from other women. She kicks butt in the world. You know, she's bulletproof, which is appealing. But she also has the Lasso of Truth. That's the thing I would want most, that Lasso of Truth. Because in politics, it would be very handy.
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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
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Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.
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Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
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There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.
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While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.
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As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.
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The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
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I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
