Elizabeth Lesser Quotes
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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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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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.
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I take my work seriously.
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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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I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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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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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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I was scared to fly for a long time.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.
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If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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Bright and illustrious illusions!
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We'll never change everyone's minds. We're not supposed to.
