Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
Quotes to Explore
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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?
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My first album was completed in three months.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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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.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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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'.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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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.
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I try to be really conscious. I don't want to ever look back and regret not raising my kids and not being around.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I just like being on stage and making people happy.
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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.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.
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If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.
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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.
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Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.
