David Levering Lewis Quotes

I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.

David Levering Lewis

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I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Jodi Picoult

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If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

Anderson Cooper

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Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

Meghan O'Rourke

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More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

John Howe

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I don't really have a process. I'm very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

Sophie Turner

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It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

Martina McBride

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A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

Louie Schwartzberg

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'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.

Lizzy Caplan

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The refusal to acknowledge the scientific value of embryonic stem cell research is one more tragic misstep.

Lois Capps

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Don't be afraid to wear fancy dress-up pieces with your everyday denim jeans/shorts.

Disha Patani

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I'm an artist; I love everyone.

Chris Zylka

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For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

Piyush Goyal

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