Jill Lepore
Related TERRI WINDLING The rabbit or hare in Native American folklore is a trickster, as it is in European folklore. Throug... HOWARD SPENCER ALAN DUNDES TERRI WINDLING As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what ... GRANT WOOD NANCY WILLARD When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales ar... PAUL HENDERSON Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of... ANTONIO GRAMSCI In the professional societies to which we both belong (American Studies Association, American Folklo... PATRICIA TURNER When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are ca... PAUL HENDERSON CRAIG GROESCHEL TERRI WINDLING Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family. DAVID MIXNER We have folklore and superstition and magic. The first book I ever wrote was on magic incantations w... CHARLES ISBELL ZAMAN ALI JEFFREY FRY TERRI WINDLING JOHN CENA Nelson is a great part of English folklore history, perhaps the best known of Britain's military her... DAVID QUARMBY PAUL AUSTER myths reflect centuries of oral tradition in non-literate as well as literate peoples – when it co... KAILIN GOW LJUPKA CVETANOVA IMANIA MARGRIA I tell people that the history of Mozilla and Firefox is so one of a kind that it should not be used... MITCH KAPOR I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years witho... TIM SCHAFER 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You... DIORA BAIRD ALAN DUNDES CHRISTOPHER LEE It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do i... GARRET DILLAHUNT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON AVA DUVERNAY BRIE LARSON The supply of folklore remedies for hangover is virtually limitless. The best way to contend with ha... DAVID L. KATZ The supply of folklore remedies for hangover is virtually limitless. The best way to contend with ha... DR. DAVID L. KATZ NICK BOSTROM REGINA BRETT H. P. LOVECRAFT The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO DAVID CRYSTAL People know your tragedies and they treat you like ERIC JEROME DICKEY Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, a... LAURA AMY SCHLITZ JIM ELLIOT C. JOYBELL C. Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO It must be something deep in our DNA. Even though the South has changed so much, it's still passed o... CHARLES REAGAN WILSON We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that... RICHARD BELLZON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday exp... LARRY DOSSEY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AMIT RAY I personally think that it's going to be quick, that the Iraqi army will join the Italian army in hi... BILL STERLING But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall asc... BIBLE [E]very action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes fro... ANTONIO GRAMSCI GABE NEWELL GERMANY KENT AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project. ANDY HERTZFELD GRAY SCOTT RICHELLE MEAD Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense a... KAL PENN I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which t... TED NAIFEH The sad heart needs work to do. JOAN BAUER GEORGE MACDONALD If baking at Zomick's bakery is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from... ZOMICK'S BAKERY In my South, the most treasured things passed down from generation to generation are the family reci... ROBERT ST. JOHN SUZANNE COLLINS The world of a writer is a world of imagination reduced to letters SOTONYE ANGA ERIK H. ERICKSON E. L. DOCTOROW 'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used... RICHARD ENGEL C. JOYBELL C. NOEL COWARD NATASHA TRETHEWEY I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong ... VICTOR LAVALLE The reason the renewal is of significance is the technology. We're going from a tape-based media to ... MATT ARMSTRONG LOUIS BINSTOCK One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollar... JONAH PERETTI JILL LEPORE JEAN-LUC GODARD A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories... STAN SAKAI ERIC KRIPKE RACHEL BILSON A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. GERMANY KENT In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyri... MANDY PATINKIN It's a process that's been in use for hundreds of years, and there's such a tradition in it. It's be... CAROL FASSIG DOUGLAS ADAMS Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... No murderer had before or has since caused such a sensation, passed so quickly into folklore or gain... PAUL BEGG
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JILL MCCORKLE Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective ... JILL ABRAMSON For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more ... JILL MCCORKLE I started spending time at stables with my daughter while she was riding. I was reminded of my love ... JILL GREENBERG JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fea... JILL CLAYBURGH JILL SCOTT JILL TARTER Guys, there's only one thing I hate more than bloggers who start sentences with 'guys' -... JILL SOLOWAY The most dangerous fundamentalists aren't just waging war in Iraq; they're attacking evoluti... JILL GREENBERG JILL BENNETT JILL PETERSON It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far... JILL TWEEDIE The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids JILL BENSLEY The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect moth... JILL CHURCHILL JILL STEIN I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been fe... JILL SOLOWAY JILL DANDO JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL STEIN JILL TARTER I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or de... JILL HENNESSY JILL TARTER JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way ... JILL MCCORKLE My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person i... JILL MCCORKLE JILL STEIN JILL SCOTT I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distri... JILL SOLOWAY JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five c... JILL WAGNER JILL STEIN JILL SCOTT JILL ROBINSON JILL TARTER Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children ... JILL GREENBERG JILL STEIN JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my car... JILL WAGNER You know, a dog can snap you out of any kind of bad mood that you're in faster than you can thin... JILL ABRAMSON JILL TARTER On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some... JILL SOLOWAY Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also lik... JILL SOLOWAY JILL SCOTT Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you. JILL SHALVIS My sister and I are incredibly close, and we created together from childhood through the time we spe... JILL SOLOWAY I get verbal diarrhea in the writers' room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories... JILL KARGMAN JILL SCOTT I keep pushing for the Crest Whitestrips thing. I get so many compliments on how white my teeth are,... JILL WAGNER The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction... JILL GREENBERG JILL SCOTT With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the p... JILL ABRAMSON JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL STEIN It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer. JILL SOLOWAY JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum. JILL SOBULE JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL STEIN JILL STEIN JILL SCOTT I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have re... JILL ABRAMSON There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one JILL CHURCHILL JILL STEIN JILL DANDO Our behavior and attitude, good, bad or indifferent, is leaking into the earth's environmental energ... JILL KNEER When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c... JILL ANZINGER Few are those whom this courage find.
They keep their eyes upon the goal,
and through this journey a... JILL ANZINGER I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is... JILL SOLOWAY JILL SCOTT JILL TARTER JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT When you're making an independent film, it's like this actor plus this actor equals this fun... JILL SOLOWAY JILL SCOTT JILL SCOTT JILL STEIN To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing. JILL ANZINGER In the space between a breath and a heartbeat I can feel it, pulling,yearning. Limbs and hearts pass... JILL ANZINGER Flying high, the memory of you takes me down, but for you I don't mind falling.Your love raised me t... JILL ANZINGER As a stone tumbled in coarse reality,
constantly worn as it is refined,
adversity, it's true beauty ... JILL ANZINGER JILL SCOTT JILL STEIN Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring ... JILL SOLOWAY The network shows have this very commercial voice that you have to adhere to, and the cable shows, i... JILL SOLOWAY I do eventually want to get married, but whether I end up marrying a guy or a girl, I'll still be in... JILL RANEY For clothes, I like this little store on Fountain, Matrushka Construction. Beth Ann Whittaker and La... JILL SOLOWAY We all at certain times in our lives find ourselves broken. True strength is found in picking up the... JILL ANZINGER Even when we grow up we call still whisper our wishes upon the wind,as a child does in innocence, br... JILL ANZINGER If there's a woman who is exhibiting her femininity or performing her femininity, it's alway... JILL SOLOWAY I always wanted to find my voice and claim my tone, but I was doing it through the steps of being a ... JILL SOLOWAY Reaching skyward; no longer leaning,
we grow well and strong,
our friendship reinforced, in the know... JILL ANZINGER JILL STEIN JILL ROBINSON My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruci... JILL TWEEDIE Men, I feel are like wine - before buying, a real connoisseur takes a small sip, and spits them out JILL TWEEDIE It is easy and dismally enervating to think of opposition as merely perverse or actually evil -- far... JILL TWEEDIE 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' as said by John Lennon. JILL MELTON JILL SCOTT I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of... JILL SOBULE JILL SCOTT I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on t... JILL ABRAMSON JILL SCOTT Something I've really been wanting to do, ever since 'Six Feet Under' ended, was create ... JILL SOLOWAY This is a convicted felon. This goes to a larger issue: Bob Menendez has based his entire political ... JILL HAZELBAKER JILL STEIN Peace is an offshoot of love....it too can grow. JILL KNEER We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other e... JILL JANSSEN It's a new gown based on one of Jackie Kennedy's favorite gowns. It was one of the only ones she eve... JILL HENNESSY If you massage a baby when asleep or physically ill with a fever, the benefits are not the same. As ... JILL VYSE I can't believe you didn't tell me you have a phone."JILL MYLES JILL STEIN I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, sa... JILL SOLOWAY I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your... JILL CLAYBURGH To me, it wasn't 'Star Wars' that shaped me; it was more 'Mary Tyler Moore' and,... JILL SOLOWAY For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a mani... JILL SOLOWAY Without the kindness of strangers, where would we be? JILL JOHNSON JILL SCOTT All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, som... JILL JOHNSTON JILL SCOTT Terry liked him a lot. I don't know how they connected. He lived close to where we were in the Dalla... JILL STAUTNER
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an art... 
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what ... 
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for ... 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to ... 
Human is what he decides to be. 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
Undertaker certainly is a cornerstone of WWE, and just as I say to myself that I really would have l... 
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just ... 
Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. 
It has been passed down in many texts of old and by the word of mouth; that no matter the strength o... 
Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing f... 
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the nex... 
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is... 
I love mythology and folklore, and I respect the time, money, and opportunity that a film gives to a... 
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas... 
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to ... 
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in ... 
Speaking, writing, and signing are the three ways in which a language lives and breathes. They are t... 
Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. 
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the ne... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
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Any life worth living is going to have risks 
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th... 
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think o... 
I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... 
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh... 
People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atroc... 
The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek ... 
History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what t... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. 
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have th... 
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... 
In the beginning the Universe was created.
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Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more... 
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as... 
We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand ca... 
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. 
It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked. 
Elizabeth Warren has very good proposals regarding Wall Street, but she really has not been leading ... 
And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in E... 
We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we ... 
Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only h... 
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. 
We misuse language and talk about the 'ascent' of man. We understand the scientific basis fo... 
Silence is not what democracy needs. Right now we have an election where, even the supporters of Hil... 
Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimb... 
Bear bile can easily and cheaply be replaced by herbs and by synthetics.