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Penelope Lively Quotes

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Memory Interest Rather

Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.

Me Growing Up Limits America Someone

It seems like I'm thinking 400 hours a day; that's kind of how it feels.

Day Thinking Kind Seems Like Hours

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

Acceptance New York Talking You New

Undergrad, for me, in college was really about, you know, how do I become a professional. But business school, for me, was how do I become the person that I'm meant to be.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Business School College Me You Know

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

Live Freedom Children People Media

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

Money People You Movies More Need

What is not conservative about saying, 'Don't go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?'

War Saying Go Way Conservative Full

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

Doing Adventurous Been Most

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

Beauty Poetry You Artist Hand Try

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.

People Immigration Doing Help March

A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

Culture Experience School Fashion

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

Beginning Me Nice Development See

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