Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

Elizabeth Lesser

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• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• The world has so much suffering in it already-choosing to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the suffering on a daily basis.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Daily

• I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Live

• The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

  

  Ahmet Davutoglu
  • Power
  • History

• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

  

  Mark Hopkins

• That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Beautiful
  • Baseball

• My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • God
  • Help
  • House

• Jazz is pretty much the freest thing you can be a part of. It's the closest thing I can get to flying. It's fun, interactive. In its own way, it's a sport.

  

  Bria Skonberg
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Flying

• So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since.

  

  Alex Cox
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.

  

  Peter Bondra
  • Good
  • Game

• Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

  

  Allison Janney
  • Great
  • Drama

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.

  

  Augusten Burroughs
  • People
  • Long
  • Interesting

• It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

  

  Ernest Wood
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • Healthy

• If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.

  

  Gail Honeyman
  • Life
  • Real
  • True

• You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.

  

  will.i.am
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Shine
  • Errors
  • Armor