Elinor Lipman Quotes
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
Quotes to Explore
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.
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Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.
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Move from the known to the unknown.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
