Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
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The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.
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I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Having a family is a compromise on some level, but it's so incredibly worth it. It actually informs the work that I do as a DP.
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I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
