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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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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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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I think about making a comeback every single day. I went running, I went training, did that for a few days. But my body couldn't handle it.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.
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I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
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You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.
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I can't quite say that I was raised Muslim, but I remember up until 5 or so I would pray, you know, with my dad. And it's actually a beautiful practice. It's giving of yourself to a higher power - no matter what you call that higher power. Living your life as close to what you think that higher power wants you to be is a really powerful thing.
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I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
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I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
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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
