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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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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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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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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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 mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.
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I'm just such a good kisser.
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Some say economics has all kinds of good tools and techniques, but it has an absence of interesting problems. I look around the world, and I see all kinds of interesting, important problems we ought to solve with the tools we have.
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I never look at the goalkeeper's eyes.
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I do a so-called trip into myself: I sit down at the piano and the melody might start to evolve from my playing or then I might start to sing it.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
