Lev Grossman Quotes
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.
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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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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet
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Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn.
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Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
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The government was built on compromising. And it's frustrating as hell.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
