Lev Grossman Quotes
I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I still have a young attitude.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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I think I was in 10th or 11th grade before I ever read a book for pleasure.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
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I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
