Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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I have become aware on my travels that when a country loses the connection between its history and its traditional dress, something truly precious is lost.
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I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
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(In reply to 'So, you could technically eat a human?') "Could and would.”
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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
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I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.
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To be human is to be lost in the woods.
