Penelope Lively Quotes

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingKnowStrangeMoreFiction

There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

John Morgridge

PeopleProblemWrongMatterCompany

I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'

John Lasseter

BeautyFairy TaleBeastWhyNever

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

InnovationHistoryCultureDesign

And 'Queer Eye' is fascinating. It has a pinch-me-I'm-dreaming quality. It's very bourgeois, of course, and much more about the liberation of the consumer than the liberation of the democratic citizen.

Tony Kushner

QualityEyeCitizenMoreDemocratic

The theatre at my school was awesome. It was a 1,400-seat auditorium, so, being in that auditorium at 17, and having, like, 1,400 people cheer for you was, like, one of the most amazing feelings that I've ever felt, energy-wise. It just felt right.

Rutina Wesley

SchoolPeopleAmazingTheatreYou

On 'Check Your Head' and 'Ill Communication,' most of the lyrics are much more, 'OK, you take that, and I'll say that' - they're split up.

Mike D

CommunicationYouSayMoreHeadUp

Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

Michael Scheuer

SisterYouSayCompanyUsedKeep

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Louis D. Brandeis

DifferenceNationAlwaysSuccessful

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

Joss Whedon

PlanTelevisionMasterChangingDoes

J. Tillman was kind of an alter ego. There was a lot I didn't want people to know about my real life. With Father John Misty, I leave everything in: so much so that I lose sleep before these albums come out because there is always a line or two in there where I'm just like, 'This is not going to go down very well.'

Josh Tillman

LifeFatherSleepPeopleEgoLose

There are courses you can take to learn the mechanics of the business, like the Radcliffe course, but I don't think they teach you how to edit.

Jonathan Galassi

BusinessThinkLearnYouTeachTake

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson

BecomeControversialSoonAccepted

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