Lev Grossman Quotes
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Great Society. And the differences have been that instead of him trying to go center-left, he's gone - in my estimation - more left. He's shown the country a much more aggressive liberal, more European style agenda, and that's on a center-right country.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
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I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
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I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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I like to say good dialogue is a million times easier to memorize than bad dialogue - difficult good dialogue, even if it's difficult. Aaron Sorkin dialogue is easier to memorize, even though it's wildly complicated.
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What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.
