Lily King Quotes
To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Always farm fresh eggs, never store bought.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the futuristic element - although, freakishly, almost every aspect I invented has come to pass in some way, including the terrorist who fantasies about blowing up the World Trade Centre. That was extremely uncomfortable. The book came out on the week of 9/11.
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One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet a lot of great children's and YA authors at events all over the country. So I figured it might be fun to interview some of them and turn the interviews into short online comics.
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I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.
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It's kind of like I won a gold medal with my family.
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To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.
