Lev Grossman Quotes

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

  

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• I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

  

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• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
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• I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
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• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
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• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

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• I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

  

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• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
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• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
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• Up until recently, I've always been a vintage store guy. I get a lot of my clothes second hand. I really enjoy being able to look through different styles you can find and how eclectic the vintage store vibe is.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.

  

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• I've never progressed very far from my days as a smart aleck in middle school.

  

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• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
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• My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.

  

  Wayne Wonder
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• I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.

  

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• 'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

  

  Emily Weiss
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• Turkey is united against terror. People from left and right, men, women, children, different ethnicities, different religious groups are all united, and they're all condemning terrorism. We have been fighting against PKK terrorism. We're fighting against Daesh, ISIS. We're fighting against FETO. We're fighting against the HKPC. So we know how hard dealing with terrorism is.

  

  Egemen Bağış
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• Iran is not getting rid of any of its nuclear plants. They're not getting rid of anything.

  

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• When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.

  

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• I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

  

  Lev Grossman
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  • Guy