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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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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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
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It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.
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I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.
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You know, it's a long world.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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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.
