Lev Grossman Quotes

It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

Lev Grossman

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I always love writing about children.

Joanna Trollope

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Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.

Jessica Williams

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I think we're such great parents together - I could not have picked a better partner to have kids with.

Jessie James Decker

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I never said I was leaving the entertainment industry.

Jessica Jung

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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.

Jennifer Palmieri

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I was very excited to do 'The Witches.' It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from 'Don't Look Now' and 'Eureka.' So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Anjelica Huston

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When I went out and did what I did in the world of professional wrestling as Stone Cold Steve Austin, pretty much anything and everything thing I said was ad lib, on the spot, just let it fly and go for it.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Michael Moriarty

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I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

Judi Dench

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I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I shared an apartment, I had no time - and so I became a compulsive outliner of everything. Ever since then, my process has consisted of trying to forcibly rid myself of that compulsion.

Jonathan Dee

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I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

Bob Schieffer

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I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

Bob Goff

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