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Elinor Lipman Quotes

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 16, 1950

Topics

Women School I Can Self-Esteem Charm

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

Sleep Doing Humanity Connection Kind

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Life Gratitude Darkness My Life Most

Here we have the Schengen agreement, and the truth is that for years we trusted each other and set border controls on the outer borders of the European Union. And as was the case with the economic and monetary union, with this step, regarding the management of the Schengen area, we did not go all the way in terms of political solutions.

Truth Step Management Border Go Way

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

Great People Inventors Laughed

There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me.

Women Woman Me Look Find Want

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

Nature History Now Worst Invention

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing.

Attention Pay Attention Pay Filmmaker

My characters in my movies are all flawed. You'll probably never see Tom Hanks in a Doug Liman film. He plays, you know, very earnest and unflawed.

You Know Movies Never See Film

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

Anthony Bourdain

Life Women Doing Know Seem Terrible

Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can't take it all in. I'm a huge 'Friends' fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about 'Extras' as I was to him about 'Friends,' was amazing.

Amazing Me Friends Meeting Sometimes

Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.

Failure Amazing Direction Data You

You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies.

You Movies Why Without Coming Watch

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