Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.
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I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
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A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.
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It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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I admire Cate Blanchett as an actor: that's my ultimate goal. To be as good as she is!
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In real life, I'm the type of girl who doesn't take herself too seriously. I'm very serious when it comes to work, but I like to make jokes and have a good laugh and make fun of myself.
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No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job....Poetry..remains one person talking to another....no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic.
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The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.
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The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.
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While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
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New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.
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One trader's move in the market can be interpreted by another trader as relevant additional information due to the uncertainty he faces.
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Diversity is good. We need each other's ideas.
