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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Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
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It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.
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My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just 'cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that's obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.
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The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
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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.
