Alison Lurie Quotes
Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
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For me being the youngest, there was never ever anything that was an issue to cause rivalry between me and my sisters.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties, one cannot exit the euro without leaving the EU.
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
