Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.
Quotes to Explore
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
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For me, it's ultimately about a great pair of shoes.
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Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.
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If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers the breath of life and a vision of themselves made generous, indomitable and wise.
