Lev Grossman Quotes

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

Lev Grossman

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Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.

Joe Elliott

HardAlwaysStreetsFingerBeatBig

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

John Lennon

MusicPeopleThinkOwnOnlyWho

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

Amy Clampitt

WomenMenDoingWayBeingStuff

When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.

Stanley Elkin

CommunityGrowing UpSmallNameNew

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

Robert B. Laughlin

DayBeginningHabitMeReadingSee

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.

Roger Taylor

PeopleThinkThoughtWrongKindGot

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

Louis Armstrong

FamilyCourageTimePeopleLongSee

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Loni Anderson

TodayGovernmentLegalCigarettes

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Chris O'Donnell

CarMoneySmartNew CarDriveThink

If you want to page me, It's OK! I've actually had guys tell me they were fans from the 'Kim Possible' days. And I've met people who still have the 'Kim Possible' theme song as their ringtone.

Christina Milian

PeopleMeSongYouWantPossible

I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

Prabal Gurung

SchoolColorsThinkingDesignYou

I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.

Shane West

MeNewNeverGunsFiredBefore

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