Laura Lippman Quotes - Page 2

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• I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

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  Careers, Stuff, Traveled

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• I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

  Laura Lippman

  Running, Tape, Adore

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I had ancestors who were slave-holders, which is a difficult piece of family history to say the least. In a recent New York Times article on the subject of modern attitudes toward our slave-holding past, the writer noted that we all want to be from "innocent origins." I _know_ I'm not. Then again, I suspect most of us are not.

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  New York, Attitude, Past

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

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  Book, Challenges

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

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  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

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  Female, Singers, Taste

  Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

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  Kids, College, People

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• Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

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  Want, Longing, Moments

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• how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

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  Gestures, Magnanimous, Ifs

  Laura Lippman (2011). “What the Dead Know”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

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  Selfishness, Size, Stinginess

  Laura Lippman (1999). “In big trouble”

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• it's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

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  Smart, Luck, Lucky

  Laura Lippman (2015). “The Last Place”, p.286, Faber & Faber

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