Kathryn Lasky Quotes
I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
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A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.
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I love day trips around L.A. I'm a huge Disneyland junkie - I go almost every other weekend.
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I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into a house where a woman had left a box of books containing 20 volumes on the history of the Inquisition. I found out there was a word for people like me: "heretic." I was kind of delighted to find I had an identity.
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To the man who is afraid everything rustles.
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I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
