Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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Against the bold, daring is unsafe.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
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In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
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Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
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I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually attached to younger people and men, and that's just the way it is. I think that it's a bitter pill to swallow, but it's a fact that there aren't going to be masses and masses of roles for older women because there isn't the audience for it.
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When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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Apple might sell a lot of watches to the faithful, and no doubt the bozos will line up outside stores again just because they love to stand outside in lines. Look at me! I'm so techie!
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I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
