Lev Grossman Quotes
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.
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People review my comic books. People review every article I write - 'The Atlantic' even publishes them. A great deal of the critique of 'Between the World and Me' was from a feminist perspective. bell hooks pushed back, among others. Some of that has value. Some of it does not. I try my best to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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The institution of the family has very few friends in Washington. There are lobbyists in Washington for every possible entity, from the possum-growers of America to every kind of crazy thing. There's somebody in Washington paid to advance the cause of that particular business, but there's not a lot of support for the family.
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Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).
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I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.
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There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.
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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
