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Lev Grossman Quotes

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.

Lev Grossman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1969

Topics

Job People College Me Library Year

I have a masters in African-American literature, and I got a Ph.D. in American Literature. I spent a number of years teaching as a professor in the university system. Then I turned forty and decided I was going to be the woman I wanted to be!

Jeryl Prescott

Woman American Literature Forty

In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.

Steven Weber

Women Men Media Gossip Dressed Like

I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

Lisa Lampanelli

Work Job People Think Thought Want

You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.

Jason Bateman

You Want Make Making Instead

My mode of presentation is short-form video - basically I create fast cut, impassioned 'idea explainers' that explode with enthusiasm and intensity as they distill how technology is expanding our sphere of possibility.

Jason Silva

Technology Enthusiasm Fast Create

If you ever go to a music session, you'll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they're reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Clint Eastwood

Music Little Things Start Reading Go

I often make films about subjects I don't really know much about. Maybe it's laziness, but I don't go in there having done a tonne of research; the research happens while I'm making the film.

Asif Kapadia

Research Laziness Go Know Done Film

Banks can't recoup the costs of serving customers who save in small amounts and transact frequently.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Small Serving Customers Costs Who

You can't magic yourself back 10 years.

Paula Radcliffe

Yourself Magic You Back Years

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

Serena Williams

Gun You Down Street Tennis Shooting

When you listen to my songs, you hear messages and real stories. That's what's setting me apart.

Tink

Me You Listen Real Songs Stories

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Rick Baker

Work Good Wrong Go Movies Out