Alison Lurie Quotes
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.
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I think there are a variety of misconceptions that go along with what 'MMMBop' and our band has been perceived as from the beginning, but I have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about playing 'MMMBop.'
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Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
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People should be beautiful in every way—in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts and in their innermost selves.
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in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
