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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I would hate not to do a play every couple of years. I think it's not me.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I don't get out to parties often.
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Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.
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My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
