Sandra Lerner Quotes
The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.Sandra Lerner
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
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Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me from the beginning, you know, as a loser in a 1972 Dodge Dart with the bumper literally duct-taped to the body.
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Jeanne d'Arc was frowned upon for her masculine attire.
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
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The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.
Sandra Lerner
