Lev Grossman Quotes

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Lev Grossman

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I try my best to keep the house looking clean, but honestly, with four kids, you can find plenty of messes. I don't have a special technique other than I can't focus when the house is a wreck, so cleaning is therapeutic for me. That works in my favor sometimes.

Joanna Gaines

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After you do a play like 'The Normal Heart,' it's hard to find something you feel so passionate about.

John Benjamin Hickey

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I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

Meg Whitman

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The image that comes to mind when I think of 'Nip/Tuck,' is I literally picture a nail just getting driven through wood. You know what I mean? Just getting absolutely bashed through a two by four.

John Hensley

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I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team. Wasn't on the football team. Wasn't on the basketball team. I was in the Number Sense Club.

Michael Dell

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That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward.

John Podesta

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Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

Ron Perlman

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What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

Mike Bartlett

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My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

Miyavi

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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

Milan Kundera

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I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Chris Tucker

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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

Conor Oberst

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