Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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'Of course I deserve it,' I said, stroking Mojo. 'That’s the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty, the worst betrayal, the worst abandonment! Lestat the scoundrel. Well, they have left this scoundrel entirely on his own.'
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Reagan never cottoned to dictators. He was pure in this notion in a true belief that democracy was the best solution in the world because it spoke to people's hopes and dreams and aspirations, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of speech.
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Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
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I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.
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Censoriously asserting one's moral superiority and treating skeptics as imbeciles and deplorables wins few converts.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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Juicero is the first company to make cold-pressed juice something that people can make themselves at home. The challenges to design and engineer a press that can deliver 8,000 pounds of force are tremendous.
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
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We don't need anymore empowered people who are all about the ego.
