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I grew up with the mindset that when you get home from work, you go to dinner and watch a movie. I don't want to be going to a club and taking off my panties. ↗

— Blake Lively

#dinner #get #go #going #grew

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#contingency #disconcerting #everything #happens #me

I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them. ↗

— Blake Lively

#crush #find #had #i #later

It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #combination #could #feeling #go

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life. ↗

— Blake Lively

#cool #hal #her #hero #jordan

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#beautiful #beautiful woman #differently #direct #happen

Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#book #characters #contributed #conventional #different

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#absolutely #change #completely #different #i

I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#children #had #i #might #particular

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#fictional #firmly #i #i do #like