Lev Grossman Quotes
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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I'm from Miami, and Diplo is from Fort Lauderdale. We grew up with a lot of Cuban and Haitian friends.
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I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.
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For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.
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This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
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Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
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Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.
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I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
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I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
