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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women. ↗

— Titus Livius

#end #less #men #more #outset

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#again #another #fiction #going #i

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#concerned #cupboard #interfere #past #photograph

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#becomes #central #concerns #even #exists

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#both #come #hope #knowledge #means

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#funny #i #kind #like #line

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#actor #because #career #completely #different

I can't pull off blond, but I got some blond tips. Which is as close as I'll ever come to being in a '90s boy band. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#being #blond #boy #close #come