Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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I would rather people understand that there is a very, very fortunate American who was given the opportunity, and was in the right place at the right time to have the moment of a lifetime. My mother was born - her name was Marianne Moon. And she was born in 1903, the year that the Wright Brothers first flew.
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Once you land on who you think the character is and what his conflicts are, you have to let that lead you. You have to throw all that other stuff away and not be worried about this epic responsibility, or it will just crush and paralyze you.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.
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If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.
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For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".
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Look for a way to lift someone up. If that's all you do, it's enough.