Lev Grossman Quotes
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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I can only work between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30, because that's when the kids are at school. So I get to do all my work and have all of my fun in that time, which means just sitting on a chair, typing, alternately clicking between writing a column and being on Twitter, and smoking as many cigarettes as I can before my lungs give out.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
