Alison Lurie Quotes
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something new, and with every new novel I try to improve the process of writing.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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At some point you have to sit back and say, you know, it doesn’t matter what this guy does, they want to impeach him.
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Whether or no it be for the general good, life is robbery. It is at this point that with life morals become acute. The robber requires justification.
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I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
