Alison Lurie Quotes
Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
Alison Lurie
Quotes to Explore
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
Gary Cole
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
Nathan Myhrvold
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
Laura Linney
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
Randy West
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
Damien Chazelle
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
Kate Christensen
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.
Jim Hunt
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.
Nelson Eddy
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The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.
Jamie Sives
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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.
Alison Lurie
