Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
Quotes to Explore
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.
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I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
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I always get to eat what I want because if I don't, I go insane.
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Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.
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Don't persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.
