Penelope Lively Quotes

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

Max von Sydow

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France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.

John Lanchester

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I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men.

Robert Dale Owen

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We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

Josephine Hart

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After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don't really know what you're doing.

Deborah Harkness

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I want a long-lasting career. I want to build up a fan base that will come to my shows and love me no matter if I have a song on the radio or not.

Aubrie Sellers

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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

Preston Manning

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I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.

Richard Stanley

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When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Ric Flair

TimeYourselfStartDoingWorthYou

I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Martin Naughton

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The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Leon Panetta

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