Jill Lepore Quotes

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

Jill Lepore

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FastResistanceFollowStudyOrder

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Joel Edgerton

DarknessFindStrivingActorLighter

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Andris Nelsons

ProudBostonOrchestraSymphonyVery

In the end, I'd rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that's so superficial.

Ruzwana Bashir

DressMeEndSomeoneNiceSeriously

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as a profession... It was the most exciting thing, the most powerful thing, the most wonderful thing to do with my life.

Mary Oliver

LifeThinkMy LifePowerfulEarly

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

Mike Farrell

HopeBestYouGets

Even among those who have no special allegiance to a particular branch of Christianity, there are plenty of seekers as well as agnostics and atheists who harbor a certain curiosity about Jesus and his story.

Jay Parini

CuriosityStorySpecialWellEven

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

David Viscott

YourselfThinkYouPersonWantMust

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Christopher Lasch

LeftAwayCounselDoomCondemn

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

Anthony Hecht

GoodPoetryMemoryLibraryKnowWho

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

Alison Brie

FunStupidLookingThinkComedyBig

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'

Sylvia Plath

SnowI AmWritingGrowWishDown

I'll even miss the Patriots fans in Foxborough, and they should miss me, because they sure did get a lot of wins off of me.

Peyton Manning

MeFansMissPatriotsGetSure

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