Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.
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Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.
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Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.
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The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.
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Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.
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I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.
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Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.
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I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.
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I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.
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I think that books are fundamentally educational.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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The excitement of wading into 'reality' and just finding out what happens - and then the challenge of selecting those things that happened and shaping them in the editing into a narrative that will have appeal and be engaging - is a great, great thrill.
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If men and women were equal, everybody would have the same values.Because at this point in time, many women feel compelled to care for the children, feel empathetically into another person's reality, more so than many men who often are on more of a straight-shooting path towards achievement come what may.
