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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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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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 went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
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There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain.
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Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.
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I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
