Penelope Lively Quotes

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 17, 1933

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I don't believe in fad diets.

Jenny Craig

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The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide

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I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

Robert Osborne

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I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Andy Kindler

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I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

Steven Seagal

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One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

Steve Southerland

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From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

Ron Howard

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I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

Russell Tovey

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I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

Chili Davis

PeopleBelieveThinkPhilosophyYou

My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Chris Roberson

DaughterMeBetterShySheRight

When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right.

Phil Ochs

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I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.

Peter Jurasik

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