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Lucy Corin

"When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or pride point that comes with it, and also some relief that the grownups actually have an answer for the problem. But, at the same time, there's suspicion and defensiveness, like, Why is the way I do things a problem? Maybe the way you do things is the problem. All of these things come with the very notion that you've been described."

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Lucy Corin

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“I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible”
“You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.”
“The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.”
“I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.”

Source : "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, logger.believermag.com. July 2, 2014.
“We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.”
“I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up”
“I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!”
“Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.”

Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.8, Penguin

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