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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At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
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The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.
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Stay positive and love your life.
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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
