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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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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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 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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The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.
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There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.
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Success in math and the hard sciences, far from being a matter of gender, is almost entirely dependent on culture - a culture that teaches girls math isn't cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.
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Now that doesn't take anything away from my brothers, Malcolm [Subban] is good looking and Jordan's [Subban] a good looking guy, too. I mean they are related to me so they get a little bit of the looks.
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Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.
