"After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor."

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Lynne Truss

#Jobs Quotes #Editing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.”
“Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.”
“Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.”

Source : "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.
“Legalize it, and I will advertise it.”
“The internet has created a transnational audience. If you publish something in the New York Times, it's read all over the world. Who knows how big this audience is or how long it will last.”
“The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.”
“The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.”
“Art needs to stand for something.”

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