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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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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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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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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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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It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.
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Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since the 1980s Shari'a courts have been established and they allow for women to go to them and they basically grant them annulment. It's not a civil divorce, they don't have the right to grant alimony or maintenance or custody.
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I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
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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.
