Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
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I first met Solange at a party for her gorgeous and inspiring website, Saint Heron. I'd already had so many phases of listening exclusively to 2012's 'True' and admired her activism and radiant style.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
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One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.
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Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I didn't even do my A-levels.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
