Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.
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The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.
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In my small town, nothing really good happened too often and I thought, 'What am I doing here? I'm wasting my life.'
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I love going to karaoke with friends if I'm having a really tough time.
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Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
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Life's too mysterious to take too serious.
