Lev Grossman Quotes
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
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I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
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When I was younger, humans went to the moon when I was about 4 years old, and I imagined that as I got older and became an adult that traveling in space was going to be fairly common and something that we all did. So I grew up believing that I'll be an astronaut just like these guys were that were going to the moon.
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I look up to the older generation of men - Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn - but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He's brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.
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Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
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Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
