Lev Grossman Quotes
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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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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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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We were told, no, you don't do. There was this high standard of morals and a sense of responsibility. That didn't mean that everybody stuck to those laws, but we were cognizant of the importance of trying to live up to that code.
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Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
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When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
