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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All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.
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In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.
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We are going to have to dump all those emails so better to do so sooner than later.
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world.
