"Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience."

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Source : "Laura Lippman's Baltimore: Loving a Flawed Place". "Morning Edition" with John Ydstie and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. August 23, 2007.

Laura Lippman

#Perfect Quotes #Resilience Quotes #Baltimore Quotes

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
“A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.”
“We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.”
“Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.”
“Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and frustration; to give more than is asked for or required; to size things up and make independent decisions; to work under authority and to cooperate with others; to defer to time, other persons, and to circumstances.”
“Always wear a smile sometime during the day - it makes you feel happier and look younger.”

Source : "Style & Substance Kylie Bax". Interview with Georgett Roberts, nypost.com. July 25, 1999.
“Hollywood has to start finding more original stuff They've got to start by not depending on, 'What can we churn back out? How can we regurgitate this?' That's why I want to redo the feel of Transformers. That's why I wanted to start with a new cast. You want it to feel fresh, and you want to make it feel different than the other three.”

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