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.
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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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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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I'm about being honest and knowing that people are watching, and they want to know that I'm asking questions that they want the answers to.
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I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
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Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
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I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.
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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
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All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now has measured up to and, strictly considered, no one should. With all their study and effort, people are directed to what is outside, to the world about them, and they are kept busy coming to know this and to master it to the extent that their purposes require. . . . How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
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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.
