Wendy Lesser Quotes
Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
Quotes to Explore
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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I know what poverty is.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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I am advocating a weak yen to a certain extent.
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I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.
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The only time I ever really consider retiring is when I get fed up with the press. Which is often.
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But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.
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Reading literature is a way of reaching back to something bigger and older and different.
