Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• My first album was completed in three months.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • First
  • Three
  • Months

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Power
  • Friends

• It's not very often that I like new bands.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Like
  • New
  • Often

• It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Why
  • Together
  • Movie

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something – history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • History
  • Me
  • Might

• I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Regret

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• Even though you're in charge, you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I'm wrong. Look at shows like 'The Walking Dead' and the ownership that the audience has of that show.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Audience
  • Wrong
  • Dead

• I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Man

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• I just like being on stage and making people happy.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Stage

• I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Story
  • Pride

• I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Live
  • Moment
  • I Can

• What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

  

  Delta Goodrem

• I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: 'Pippin,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'Once on This Island,' and 'Hair.' The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.

  

  Amanda Warren
  • Work
  • Great
  • School

• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Think
  • Man

• I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Men
  • She
  • Day

• You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. To prepare, I do a lot of aerobic activity. Many times at the gym, people will look at me because I'll be on the treadmill humming.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • School
  • Learn
  • Life is