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Penelope Lively Quotes

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Me Choice Everything Us Seems Mix

Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace - the way of non-violence - the way of love - the way of life as the way of living.

Life Love Freedom Peace Living Way

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

Work Struggle School Think Craft

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.

Life Death World Die Nothing Birth

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

Stanley Hauerwas

Time Believe Think Become Try Need

A negative is never finished.

Negative Never Finished

My job is to help Virat in the field. He is the captain, and whenever he looks up around, I should be around to complement him and help him as much as I could.

Job Help Looks Captain Him Up

I'd just recorded it in Mariah Carey's studio. THey thought the song was perfect for Nina, because she's so shy, so it was nice to have that connection with Nina in the song. It was special.

Song Thought Connection Perfect Nice

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

Lawyer Country Authority Band Right

When former president Lyndon B. Johnson unveiled his plans for the program that would become Medicaid, he reflected on the future of public policy in the United States.

Future Plans Become President Policy

Working with Sofia Vergara and growing up with her was great because she was, you know, a really amazing, curvy role model for me. She helped me learn to accept the way I looked and love it and dress for it and feel good about myself.

Love Good Great Myself Dress Me

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

Fame Wild Cell Phones Phones See

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Life Love Best Hold Other Thing

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